Lot 2
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Aureus, 7.27g., Rome, 116 A.D., IMP TRAIANVS AVG GER DAC PM TRP COS VII PP, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. CONSERVATORI PATRIS PATRIAE, Jupiter Conservator standing, holding sceptre and thunderbolt, protecting with his himation a small figure of Trajan who holds branch (RIC 249; BMC 494; C.46; Hill, Undated Coins 647 [as 115 A.D.]; A von Sallet, ZfN 13, 1885, pl.77,8), good very fine, scarce
Aureus, 7.27g., Rome, 116 A.D., IMP TRAIANVS AVG GER DAC PM TRP COS VII PP, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. CONSERVATORI PATRIS PATRIAE, Jupiter Conservator standing, holding sceptre and thunderbolt, protecting with his himation a small figure of Trajan who holds branch (RIC 249; BMC 494; C.46; Hill, Undated Coins 647 [as 115 A.D.]; A von Sallet, ZfN 13, 1885, pl.77,8), good very fine, scarce

Details
Aureus, 7.27g., Rome, 116 A.D., IMP TRAIANVS AVG GER DAC PM TRP COS VII PP, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. CONSERVATORI PATRIS PATRIAE, Jupiter Conservator standing, holding sceptre and thunderbolt, protecting with his himation a small figure of Trajan who holds branch (RIC 249; BMC 494; C.46; Hill, Undated Coins 647 [as 115 A.D.]; A von Sallet, ZfN 13, 1885, pl.77,8), good very fine, scarce
Provenance
Dr Bauer collection, Köln, 1962
MnzZentrum auction 64, 15 April 1988, lot 226

Lot Essay

The reverse type is a comment on Trajan's third and final Parthian campaign when he set out from Antioch early in 116. A more popular interpretation at the time was that it referred to the 'miraculous' escape of the Emperor who, whilst in Antioch in 115, moved out of a house just before the building collapsed.