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Message:: [QUOTE="Nemo, post: 2779513, member: 58462"]That is an excellent example of the type Doug! I picked one up after reading about the senior Trajan commanding the 10th Legion under Vespasian and son. [ATTACH=full]642628[/ATTACH] Trajan's father, Marcus Ulpius Traianus was the most distinguished of the gens Ulpii, a family originally hailing from Tuder in Umbria which had settled in Baetica in Spain. His success in both war and politics paved the way for his son to become the first non-Italian emperor of Rome. He came to prominence while commanding the 10th Legion during the Jewish War. Having pounded the city of Joppa close to submission, he presented Titus with the honor of leading the final assault. As a reward, Vespasian made Ulpius Traianus a consul. Serving as governor of Syria from 73 to 77, the elder Trajan was later proconsul of all Asia from 79 to 80. In that capacity he earned honors in actions against the Parthians, built two vital roads and shored up the frontier defenses. Trajan deified his adopted father Nerva in 98, though without immediately striking coins for the new Divus. Trajan Pater died about two years after his son took the purple and was also, as this coin shows, deified by him. Trajan's natural father seems to have been consecrated in connection with the dedication of Trajan's Forum in Jan. 112. That was the occasion for the striking of this denarius type for DIVVS PATER TRAIAN early in 112.[/QUOTE]