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Denarius IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GER DAC P P REST P CLODIVS M F, Apollo and Diana Lucifera
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the classical Roman Republican style typical of restitution coinage. The deity's hair is arranged in tight curls beneath the laurel wreath, with longer locks falling at the nape of the neck. A lyre, Apollo's emblematic attribute, is depicted in the field behind the head. No legend appears on the obverse, as the full titulature of Trajan is reserved for the reverse, consistent with the restitution series. The flan is irregular and slightly broader than standard, reflecting the hammered production technique of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This piece belongs to Trajan's celebrated "REST" series — a group of restoration denarii deliberately copying Republican types that had fallen out of circulation. The practice of restoration coinage was not sentiment; it was political, tying the new emperor's prestige to the accumulated weight of Roman Republican tradition. Trajan issued more of these restorations than any previous emperor, and the Clodius type specifically reaches back to a moneyer active around 42 BC.
The original P. Clodius M.f. Turrinus issue dates to the final convulsions of the Republic, struck just after Caesar's assassination.