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Contributor: Mark Reid.
Issuer: TRAJAN, AD 98-117. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. TRAIANO AVG. GER. DAC. P. M. TR. P. COS VI P. P., Laureate head right.
Reverse: S. P. Q. R. OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Mars, naked except for cloak around waist, advancing right, holding spear and trophy.
Reference: RIC 156 (similar). Grade: XF+.
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.