Denarius - Trajan P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R PROVID, Providentia, without Parthico

Trajan received the title Parthicus in 116 AD following his capture of Ctesiphon and the Parthian capital, yet this piece — sharing the same reverse type and tribunician dating as the Parthico issues — was struck without that honorific. The omission almost certainly places production before the formal award, situating these coins in the early Parthian campaign period when Roman armies were advancing through Mesopotamia but the title had not yet been ratified by the Senate.

RIC II 364 var. acknowledges the type without fully resolving the die relationship to the titled parallels.