Featured Trajan the road builder.

Nice, you have an eye for good quality coins with great patina's.

 

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Fantastic detail, one of the best I have seen.

 

This one was up for auction (Solidus Auction 43, lot 211, Jun 23, 2019) when this thread was going the first time around. Hope you don't mind me reviving the thread some 10 months later to show it off!


Trajan, AD 98-117.
Roman AR Denarius, 3.39 g, 18.4 mm, 7 h.
Rome, AD 112-117 (likely AD 113).
Obv: IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate bust, right, with slight drapery on left shoulder.
Rev: S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, woman (Via Traiana) reclining left on rocks, holding wheel in right hand and branch in left hand; in exergue, VIA TRAIANA.
Refs: RIC 266; BMCRE 487-91; RSC/Cohen 468; Strack 179a; RCV 3173; UCR 582; Woytek (MIR) 3983b.

 

Not at all, great detailed Denarius RC. I found a pic from my holiday last September at Bari where there is a section of Via Traiana, exposed under the modern walkway near the beach at Bari.

 

Thanks for sharing the pic of your personal inspection of Trajan's road last fall, @Ancient Aussie! Here's a denarius with Abundantia on the reverse- perhaps celebrating the prosperity that funded highway construction (among other projects) underway during Trajan's time as emperor.


Trajan (98-117 AD). AR Denarius. Rome, 98 AD. Laureate head right / Abundantia seated left on chair formed by crossed cornucopia, holding scepter. 17 mm. 3.4 g.

 

Great coin Carl, love the toning.