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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: TRAJAN, AD 98-117. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. TRAIANO AVG. GER. DAC. P. M. TR. P. His laureated head right.
Reverse: COS.V P.P.S.P.Q.R.OPTIMO PRINCIPI, AET. AVG.either side of Aeternitas standing facing left holding and presenting the heads of the sun and of the moon.
Reference: RIC 91; Van Meter 8, Cohen 3.
Comments: For more information, read the "Trajan" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Trajan see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.