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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;singig, post: 4621872, member: 93672&quot;]Trajan Denarius. RIC 142</p><p>IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC PM TRP, laureate bust right, drapery on far shoulder / </p><p>COS V PP SPQR OPTIMO PRINC, Arabia standing left, holding a branch and a bundle of canes, camel at feet</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144272[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan Denarius. RIC 331</p><p>IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIM AVG GER DAC, laureate draped bust right /</p><p>PARTHICO PM TRP COS VI PP SPQR, Mars walking right with trophy and spear.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144275[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan AE Sestertius. RIC 642</p><p>IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC PARTHICO PM TR P COS VI PP, laureate draped bust right /</p><p><b>ARMENIA ET MESOPOTAMIA IN POTESTATEM P R REDACTAE SC</b>, Trajan standing facing with spear &amp; parazonium, Armenia, Euphrates &amp; Tigris at feet.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144277[/ATTACH] <i>&#039;&#039;Trajan’s second major war was against the Parthians, Rome’s traditional enemy in the east. The chronology of his campaigns is uncertain. In preparation for them, in 105/106 one of his generals annexed the Nabataean kingdom, the part of Arabia extending east and south of Judaea. Next, about 110, the Parthians deposed the pro-Roman king of Armenia, whereupon in 113/114 Trajan campaigned to reinstate him. Meanwhile, Trajan undertook the construction of a road along the ancient caravan trail known as the King’s Highway. That road, the Via Nova Traiana, linked the city of Bostra—which became the capital of the new Roman province of Arabia—with the Red Sea. In 115 Trajan annexed upper Mesopotamia and, in the same or next year, moved down the Tigris River to capture the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon. He reached the Persian Gulf, where he is said to have wept because he was too old to repeat Alexander the Great’s achievements in India.&#039;&#039; source </i><a href="https://www.britannica.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/" rel="nofollow">britannica.com</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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