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Sestertius - Trajan SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS S C SALVS AVG, Salus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 114-117 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Salus, goddess of health and well-being, is depicted seated left on a throne or chair, feeding a serpent that rises from an altar before her. The figure is rendered in classical style with flowing drapery. The legend SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS is arranged around the upper field, with SALVS AVG in the lower portion and the senatorial authority mark S C flanking the central type in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (114-117) |
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Struck in the final years of Trajan's reign, this sestertius belongs to a period when the emperor was campaigning in Parthia and managing the largest territorial extent Rome would ever hold. The Salus type — invoking the goddess of public welfare and the emperor's health — took on pointed political weight after 113 AD, when Trajan's deteriorating physical condition became a matter of genuine imperial concern. He died in Cilicia in 117 before returning to Rome, and coins invoking his wellbeing from these last years carry an unintentional irony.
RIC II 670 is a relatively scarce late issue within the sestertius series, with production concentrated at Rome under pressing administrative conditions as Hadrian's succession was being quietly arranged.