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Denarius - Trajan TR P COS II P P, Concordia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 98-99 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Concordia is depicted seated left on a throne, holding a patera in her extended right hand and a double cornucopia in her left arm, emblematic of harmony and abundance. The figure is rendered in flowing drapery, consistent with the classical allegorical style of Trajanic coinage. The abbreviated legend TR P COS II P P runs around the periphery of the field, referencing Trajan's tribunician power and second consulship. The overall composition is typical of early Trajanic denarii struck at Rome, with the personification serving as a programmatic statement of civic concord at the outset of the new reign. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck in the first two years of Trajan's reign, this issue dates to a moment of deliberate political repositioning after the fraught final years of Domitian. The tribunician and consular dating places it precisely within 98–99 AD, before Trajan had even returned to Rome from the Rhine frontier following his adoption and accession. The Senate had already declared Domitian's memory damned, and early Trajanic coinage carried messaging calibrated to distance the new regime from that condemnation.
RIC II 31 is among the earlier catalogued types in the series, reflecting the output of the Roman mint operating under a physically absent emperor for much of this window.