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Denarius - Trajan S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI FORT RED, Fortuna
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 112-114 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The FORT RED legend — Fortuna Redux, "Fortune the Returner" — was typically invoked to celebrate a ruler's safe return from campaign or journey. Trajan's use of it in 112–114 almost certainly anticipates his Parthian expedition, making this a prospective rather than retrospective issue, an unusual inversion of the formula. The S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI obverse legend, decreed by the Senate, was the highest honorific title Rome could formally bestow and remained uniquely associated with Trajan — no emperor before him received it officially.