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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3556921, member: 85693"]Great post, Valentinian - and I like your site too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going from a beautiful coin to a pretty poor specimen, I just got a budget denarius of Trajan. While researching it, I came across some information that the type - FORT RED - was issued for Trajan's Parthian campaign - I found this on a trajancoins site (anybody from CT? - It's a great place to visit):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://trajancoins.info/trajden3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://trajancoins.info/trajden3.html" rel="nofollow">http://trajancoins.info/trajden3.html</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>"The four FORTUNA REDUX coins above were minted to wish Trajan good fortune on his expedition to Parthia. For that part the blessing worked well as Trajan's army swept into Mesopotamia and captured the Parthian capital. However, good fortune stopped there as Trajan was diverted by rebellions in Judaea, Cyprus, and Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Although he suppressed all of these, he fell ill and never made it back to Rome. The images on the coins are similar. The major difference being in the inscriptions."</p><p><br /></p><p>The four types referred to are RIC 308 and RIC 318-320. It is a fairly common type. Here are mine - the first one I just got for five bucks and change:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945571[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Trajan Denarius</b></p><p><b>(114-117 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[IMP CAES] NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM [DAC], laureate draped bust right / PM TRP COS VI P[P SPQR], Fortuna seated l., holding rudder & cornucopiae, FORT [RED].</p><p>RIC 318; RSC 154; Sear 984</p><p>(3.20 grams / 19 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my (somewhat) nicer one from a couple years back:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945577[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3556921, member: 85693"]Great post, Valentinian - and I like your site too. Going from a beautiful coin to a pretty poor specimen, I just got a budget denarius of Trajan. While researching it, I came across some information that the type - FORT RED - was issued for Trajan's Parthian campaign - I found this on a trajancoins site (anybody from CT? - It's a great place to visit): [url]http://trajancoins.info/trajden3.html[/url]. "The four FORTUNA REDUX coins above were minted to wish Trajan good fortune on his expedition to Parthia. For that part the blessing worked well as Trajan's army swept into Mesopotamia and captured the Parthian capital. However, good fortune stopped there as Trajan was diverted by rebellions in Judaea, Cyprus, and Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Although he suppressed all of these, he fell ill and never made it back to Rome. The images on the coins are similar. The major difference being in the inscriptions." The four types referred to are RIC 308 and RIC 318-320. It is a fairly common type. Here are mine - the first one I just got for five bucks and change: [ATTACH=full]945571[/ATTACH] [B]Trajan Denarius (114-117 A.D.) Rome Mint[/B] [IMP CAES] NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM [DAC], laureate draped bust right / PM TRP COS VI P[P SPQR], Fortuna seated l., holding rudder & cornucopiae, FORT [RED]. RIC 318; RSC 154; Sear 984 (3.20 grams / 19 mm) This is my (somewhat) nicer one from a couple years back: [ATTACH=full]945577[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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