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Quinarius - Trajan DACICVS COS V P P, Victory
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 103-111 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM (Translation: Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus, Germanicus. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Nerva Trajan, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans.) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The quinarius was by Trajan's reign an almost ceremonial denomination — issued in small quantities, rarely for general commerce, typically to mark a specific military achievement. This piece belongs to a group struck following the Dacian Wars, the first of which concluded in 102 AD when Decebalus accepted Roman terms, and the second of which ended in 106 with the complete destruction of Sarmizegetusa and Dacia's incorporation as a province. The DACICVS in the titulature dates the type's inception to after the first war; the COS V places the terminal date no earlier than 103.
RIC II 76 is among the scarcer Trajanic quinarii, a reflection of the denomination's narrow production rather than any minting irregularity.