Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Denarius - Trajan S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Fides
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
|---|---|
| Year | 103-111 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 3.3 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P (Translation: Imperator Traiano Augustus, Germanicus, Dacicus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate, Consul Quintum, Pater Patriae. Supreme commander (Imperator), of Trajan, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans, conqueror of the Dacians, high priest, holder of tribunician power, consul for the fifth time, father of the nation.) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (103-111) |
| Additional information |
Issued during Trajan's Dacian Wars period, this denarius belongs to a deliberately propagandistic emission celebrating Roman civic virtues at a moment when the emperor was reshaping the empire's northeastern frontier. The SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI legend — "to the best princeps, by the Senate and People of Rome" — was Trajan's own innovation, a title formally voted to him in 114 AD but appearing on coinage as early as 103, used instrumentally to frame military conquest as constitutional governance. Fides, the personification of good faith and kept oaths, carried pointed meaning during a period when Roman treaty obligations with Dacia had just been systematically violated.