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As - Trajan COS II DES III P P S C, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 99 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Trajan facing right, rendered in high relief with characteristically strong, naturalistic portraiture typical of Trajanic coinage. The emperor's laureate wreath is clearly delineated, with the aegis or drapery visible at the base of the truncation. The surrounding legend runs clockwise from the lower left, identifying the emperor with his full imperial titulature. The die-work displays confident, bold engraving consistent with the Rome Mint's production during Trajan's early reign. |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M TR P (Translation: Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus, Germanicus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Nerva Trajan, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans, high priest, holder of tribunician power.) |
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Trajan's second consulship coincided with the early consolidation of his reign following Nerva's death in January 98 AD. The COS II / DES III dating bracket places this as specifically as Roman bronze coinage gets — struck in 99 before he assumed his third consulship on January 1st of 100. The S C notation reflects the formal fiction that the Senate still authorized bronze coinage, a constitutional courtesy the emperors maintained long after it had ceased to reflect any real political check.