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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 916543, member: 13719&quot;]<font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black">Trajan, was the 13th Roman emperor, though he was born in </span><span style="color: black">Spain</span><span style="color: black">. A monument of his you may recognize is Trajan’s Colum, that commemorate his victory in the Dacian wars.</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/members/randygeki/albums/75/11687.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Roman Empire</font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"> - Trajan 98-117AD - Denarius</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">3.17g </span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIM AVG GER DAC PARTHICO, laureate draped bust right / P M TR P COS VI P P SPQR, Mars advancing right with trophy &amp; spear. RIC 340 RSC 271</span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">&quot;Trajan took to the field again and after building with the design of Apollodorus of Damascus his massive bridge over the </span></font><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Danube</font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">, he conquered </font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Dacia</font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"> completely in 106. Sarmizegethusa was destroyed, Decebalus committed suicide, and his severed head was exhibited in </font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Rome</font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"> on the steps leading up to the Capitol. Trajan built a new city, &quot;Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa&quot;, on another site than the previous Dacian Capital, although bearing the same full name, Sarmizegetusa. He resettled </font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Dacia</font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"> with Romans and annexed it as a province of the </font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Roman Empire</font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">. Trajan&#039;s Dacian campaigns benefited the Empire&#039;s finances through the acquisition of </font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Dacia</font></span><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">&#039;s gold mines. The victory is celebrated by Trajan&#039;s Column.&quot;</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black">The emperor fallowing Trajan was Hadrian. 2 things that stick out most in my mind is that he built a “defensive” wall across Great Briton (</span><span style="color: black">Hadrian’s Wall</span><span style="color: black">) and that he popularized beards.</span></font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/members/randygeki/albums/75/11686.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Hadrian 117-138 AD. Silver Denarius. Pax. RIC 44a</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">Hadrian 117-138 AD </span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">Silver Denarius (3.35 gm)</span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">Rome Mint 118 AD</span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">Obv: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG ; Laureate heroic bust right, drapery on left shoulder.</span></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">Rev: P M TR P COS II ; Pax standing left with olive branch &amp; cornucopiae, PAX in exergue. </span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: black">RIC II 44a ; Sear II 3511</span></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: black"><font size="3">The 15th was Antoninus Pius. </font></span><i><span style="color: black">“His reign was the most peaceful in the entire history of the Principate; while there were several military disturbances throughout the Empire in his time, in </span></i><i><span style="color: black">Mauretania</span></i><i><span style="color: black">, Iudaea, and amongst the Brigantes in Britannia, none of them are considered serious.” (wiki)</span></i></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/members/randygeki/albums/75/11691.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Antoninus Pius AE Dupondius. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P, radiate head right / COS IIII S-C, Salus standing left feeding snake arising from altar to left &amp; holding rudder to right.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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