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Denarius - Trajan DACICVS COS IIII P P, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 101-102 |
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| Weight | 3.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The winged goddess Victoria advances briskly to the left in dynamic stride, her robes billowing behind her in flowing folds. In her extended right hand she holds a victory wreath, and in her left hand she carries a long palm branch angled over her shoulder, both attributes being canonical symbols of Roman military triumph. The figure is rendered in high relief against an open field, with the encircling legend divided around the design. The reverse type directly commemorates Trajan's successful First Dacian War of 101–102 AD. |
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The DACICVS title in the legend dates this issue to Trajan's first Dacian war, awarded after the campaign of 101–102 forced Decebalus into a humiliating client-king arrangement — not outright conquest, which required a second war a decade later. The Senate granted the honorific before fighting had fully concluded, a political gesture as much as a military one.
RIC II 47 is a common type within the series, which is unsurprising: Trajan struck heavily to fund and celebrate the Dacian operations. The mint at Rome was producing propaganda at scale.