TRAJAN Emperor / BASKET of POPPIES & CORN / Aeolis 98-117 AD. Coin + COA GGcoins

Description

Roman Emperor Trajan
Marcus Ulpius Traianus
Reign - ( 98 -117 AD.)
Asia Province;    Aeolis,  Elaea
Æ Bronze:
Size: 14.mm,      Weight: 2.8 gm.
Obverse:
ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑ CƐΒ,
laureate bust of
Trajan
facing right...
Reverse:
ƐΛΑΙΤΩΝ,
basket with two poppies among
four ears of corn...
Ref;     Agora 82,      Milne 1924
Personalized COA included
The Coin:
A very pleasing example of a provancal
AE bronze
coin ,
Well detailed & very neatly struck,  in nice shape.    It saw some use
before
it found a safe place
to wait out the centuries.
Always Authentic, I have never knowingly sold a copy or reproduction!
As grading
is subjective please Judge the coin photos to determine this for yourself.
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HISTORY:
Trajan
was a Roman emperor who ruled from A.D. 98 until his death in A.D. 117.
Born in Italica (Seville in modern-day Spain), Trajan was the first Roman emperor born
outside of Italy. He was also one of the first emperors to be chosen, rather than to inherit
power as part of a ruling family.
When Domitian had been assassinated by a palace conspiracy on September 18, 96,
the conspirators had put forward as emperor, and the Senate had welcomed, the elderly
and innocuous Nerva.
His selection represented a reaction against Domitian’s autocracy and a return to the
cooperation between emperor and Senate that had characterized the reign of Vespasian.
Nevertheless, the imperial guard (the praetorian cohorts) forced the new emperor to
execute the assassins who had secured the throne for him. There was also discontent
among the frontier commanders.
Therefore, in October 97, Nerva adopted as his successor Trajan, whom he had made
governor of Upper Germany and who seemed acceptable both to the army commanders
and to the Senate. On January 1, 98, Trajan entered upon his second consulship as
Nerva’s colleague.
Soon thereafter, on January 27 or 28, Nerva died, and Trajan was accepted as emperor
by both the armies and the Senate. Before his accession, Trajan had married Pompeia
Plotina, to whom he remained devoted. As the marriage was childless, he took into his
household his cousin Hadrian, who became a favourite of Plotina.
Before he was emperor, Trajan was an army commander, senator, and governor of upper
Germany. These experiences helped him gain the support of both the sitting emperor,
Nerva, who named him as his successor, and generals of the Roman army.
After Nerva’s death in A.D. 98, Trajan prioritized protecting and expanding the Roman Empire.
He twice defeated the people from the region of Dacia, where modern-day Romania is located.
He used the bountiful plunder from these victories to fund public works projects in Rome.
These included a spacious new forum with two libraries and a massive stone column called
Trajan’s Column. The column was covered in carvings depicting the victory over the Dacians
and still stands today.      It is one of the largest monuments to survive the fall of Rome.
During his 19-year reign, Trajan expanded the Roman Empire to its farthest territorial limits
up until that date. The empire stretched from Scotland down to Northern Africa and swept
east across the Mediterranean as far as Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq.
Late in 115, Trajan barely escaped death in an earthquake that devastated Antioch
(modern Antakya, Turkey). In 116 revolts broke out both in the newly conquered territories
and in Jewish communities in several of the eastern provinces.
Trajan, discouraged and in ill health, left Antioch for Rome. He died, in his 64th year, at
Selinus on the southern coast of Asia Minor. His ashes were returned to Rome for a state
funeral and burial in the base of his column. Just before his death was made public, it was
announced that he had adopted Hadrian, who in 100 had married Trajan’s favourite niece.
Although Hadrian differed completely in temperament from Trajan and initially had not
been advanced with any unusual speed, Trajan, a few years before his death, had made
him governor of Syria, where he was responsible for the logistical support of the Parthian
campaign. But Trajan did not then adopt him or give any indication of a choice of successor.
Hence contemporary gossip stamped the announcement of Hadrian’s last-minute adoption
as a fiction put out by the empress Plotina, though it was probably a genuine deathbed
decision.
Modern historians differ in their judgments of Trajan both as a ruler and as a conqueror.
Some think that his Dacian campaigns brought the empire new revenues and strengthened
the Danubian frontier. Others regard his success as having been prepared by Domitian and
his Parthian war as having overstrained the resources of the empire because of his
megalomanic desire for military glory.
Trajan ruled strictly, but fairly, and struck an effective balance between making conquests
and maintaining a high quality of life for his people. Trajan died in A.D. 117 after falling ill
while defending the empire’s extensive borders.
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