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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3728595, member: 75937&quot;]Not rare. Not high-grade. Nice nonetheless and a good example of the final issue (Group VI) of Trajan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan received the title of Parthicus (&quot;victor over the Parthians&quot;) in AD 116 after the fall of Ctesiphon and the collapse of the Parthian resistance in late AD 115. The penultimate issues bear the title PARTHICO on the obverse inscription. Mattingly (BMCRE3, p. lxxxvi) notes the last issue is characterized by PARTHICO being moved to the reverse. Denarii of this final issue include Virtus, Fortuna, Providentia, and Salus reverse types (ibid, pp. 122-124). Both Mattingly and Sear date this issue to AD 117.</p><p><br /></p><p>This type features Providentia, referring not simply to the <i>providentia</i> (foresight) of the emperor, but the wider <i>providentia</i> of the gods (ibid, p. lxxxv). Providentia is typically depicted on coins holding a rod, with which she sometimes points to a globe at her feet, and scepter. Not infrequently, particularly on issues of the third century, she is depicted holding the globe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s see your late-reign Trajans, Providentia coins, or anything you feel is relevant!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999751[/ATTACH]</p><p>Trajan, AD 98-117.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.20 g, 18.3 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 117.</p><p>Obv: IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIM AVG GERM DAC, laureate and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R, Providentia, draped, standing left, pointing with right hand at large globe left, and holding vertical scepter in left, left elbow resting on column; PRO VID left and right in field.</p><p>Refs: RIC 361; BMCRE 640-44; Cohen 313; RCV 3154; Woytek 580v; UCR 764; Wulfing 712.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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