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Denarius IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GER DAC P P M METELLVS Q F, Apollo
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Apollo facing right, his long hair bound with a fillet and flowing down the neck, rendered in finely striated locks. A six-pointed star appears in the lower right field before the bust. The legend ROMA is inscribed vertically in the left field, identifying the type as a Trajanic restitution of an earlier Roman Republican prototype associated with the Caecilii Metelli family. |
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| Mintage | ND (98-117) |
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The reverse type here references the gens Caecilia and its most celebrated member, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio — but the precise reason Trajan revived this Republican moneyer attribution on an imperial denarius remains debated. Trajan's coinage frequently invoked Roman ancestral tradition as ideological scaffolding for his expansionist program, particularly during the Dacian war years when legitimacy through Roman history carried obvious propaganda weight.
RIC II 770 is relatively scarce within the Trajanic series.