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Sestertius - Trajan TR POT COS II S C, Pax
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 98-99 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Pax (Peace) seated left on a throne or chair, draped in flowing robes, extending an olive branch in her right hand and holding a long sceptre or cornucopiae in her left. The figure is rendered in high relief against a plain field. The legend TR POT COS II is disposed around the upper periphery, while the senatorial authority mark S C (Senatus Consultum) appears in the lower exergual area beneath the figure. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Trajan's first full year of uncontested rule following Nerva's death in January 98 produced a concentrated burst of civic messaging in bronze. The Pax type belongs to a programmatic issue designed to distance the new administration from Domitian's final years — a period the Senate had formally condemned through damnatio memoriae. Peace was not an abstract virtue here but a pointed political claim.
RIC II 391 is among the earlier attributions in Trajan's sestertius sequence, struck before the Dacian campaigns reshaped his iconographic priorities entirely.