RIC II Trajan 642
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC II Trajan 642. Denomination: Sestertius. Authority: Trajan. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze
- Denomination
- Sestertius
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Trajan
Design
- Obverse
- Bust of Trajan, laureate, draped, right
- Reverse
- Trajan, laureate, in military dress, standing front, head right, holding spear and parazonium; on ground reclining figures of Armenia, Tigris and Euphrates
- Obverse legend
- IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P
- Reverse legend
- ARMENIA ET MESOPOTAMIA IN POTESTATEM P R REDACTAE S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.2.tr.642
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