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Dupondius - Trajan PROVIDENTIA AVGVSTI S P Q R S C, Providentia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 114-117 |
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| Value | 1 Dupondius = 1/8 Denarius |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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These final years of Trajan's reign were consumed by the Parthian campaign — the empire at its greatest territorial extent, supply lines stretched across Mesopotamia, and the emperor himself dying at Selinus in Cilicia in August 117 before he could return to Rome. The PROVIDENTIA types issued in this period carry a pointed political charge: Trajan was actively managing succession questions, and the projection of imperial foresight onto coinage was a direct response to anxieties about what came next.
Hadrian's adoption, announced only after Trajan's death under disputed circumstances, gave that message an unintended retrospective irony.