Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
N.d.
Primary Source Reference:
"Catalogue des Medailles Romaines dans ma collection," Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 2
Notes:
This coin was possibly Obverse: IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P successful general Caesar Nerva Trajan as Augustus, conquerer of the Germans and Dacians, Pontifex Maximus, holding the tribunician power, consul for the 5th time, Pater Patriae or Father of the Country): Bust of Trajan, laureate, right (sometimes draped); Reverse: S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI: S C (The Senate and People of Rome, the best leader, by decree of the Senate) in oak-wreath; sestertius (orichalcum). H. Mattingly and E. Sydenham, The Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. 2 (London, 1926), Trajan, 476
Both an as and a sestertius were minted with these features; the sesterius is pictured here.
