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Denarius - Trajan P M TR P COS V P P, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint (Rome) |
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| Year | 103-111 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | P M TR P COS V P P (Translation: Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate, Consul Quintum, Pater Patriae. High priest, holder of tribunician power, consul for the fifth time, father of the nation.) |
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Trajan's fifth consulship, held continuously from 103 AD, coincided with the peak of his Dacian campaigns — the first concluded in 102, the second launched in 105. The Victory types struck across this window served an explicit propagandistic function tied to those wars, not merely conventional imperial flattery. Rome's treasury was materially transformed by the Dacian conquest; ancient sources record that Trajan extracted roughly 165 tonnes of gold and 330 tonnes of silver from Decebalus's kingdom, directly funding a building program and coin output of exceptional scale.
RIC II 82 is among the more frequently encountered Trajanic denarii, a direct consequence of that mint volume.