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<p>[QUOTE="JPD3, post: 7304389, member: 116216"]Read your post and it made me curious to learn a bit about Trajan. Although I studied ancient history in a younger lifetime, his name as one of Emperors, slipped my mind. According to<i> Trajan's Column Versus Numismatic Programme</i>, authored by Cristian Gazdac, "Even for the Romans, the reign of Trajan is known among the most famous ones: ”…, melior Traiano” ([be] better than Trajan). Although he did not outright say that there are "representations of power on Trajan's provincial coins", he did say that they were "designed to ‘tell the world’ about this glorious victory of Trajan upon the brave Dacians who, according to Pliny the Younger, never been subdued before."</p><p>Another study I perused devoted a portion of a chapter to Trajan as the 'Debellator' (Corey J. Ellithorpe: <i>Circulating Imperial Ideology: Coins as Propaganda in the Roman World, Chapter 4, pp 122-141</i>). As a synonym for conqueror, that word definitely conveys power.</p><p>And I actually found information about Trajan here on Coin Talk as well. It seems we had a post back in 2018 about him: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trajan-the-best-emperor-and-the-mystery-of-the-river-god.318843/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trajan-the-best-emperor-and-the-mystery-of-the-river-god.318843/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trajan-the-best-emperor-and-the-mystery-of-the-river-god.318843/</a></p><p>Anyway, thanks for awaking my curiosity and allowing my brain cells to fire up a search about representations of Trajan, powerful and otherwise.</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JPD3, post: 7304389, member: 116216"]Read your post and it made me curious to learn a bit about Trajan. Although I studied ancient history in a younger lifetime, his name as one of Emperors, slipped my mind. According to[I] Trajan's Column Versus Numismatic Programme[/I], authored by Cristian Gazdac, "Even for the Romans, the reign of Trajan is known among the most famous ones: ”…, melior Traiano” ([be] better than Trajan). Although he did not outright say that there are "representations of power on Trajan's provincial coins", he did say that they were "designed to ‘tell the world’ about this glorious victory of Trajan upon the brave Dacians who, according to Pliny the Younger, never been subdued before." Another study I perused devoted a portion of a chapter to Trajan as the 'Debellator' (Corey J. Ellithorpe: [I]Circulating Imperial Ideology: Coins as Propaganda in the Roman World, Chapter 4, pp 122-141[/I]). As a synonym for conqueror, that word definitely conveys power. And I actually found information about Trajan here on Coin Talk as well. It seems we had a post back in 2018 about him: [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trajan-the-best-emperor-and-the-mystery-of-the-river-god.318843/[/URL] Anyway, thanks for awaking my curiosity and allowing my brain cells to fire up a search about representations of Trajan, powerful and otherwise. :)[/QUOTE]
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