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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: TRAJAN, AD 98-117. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. TRAIANO AVG. GER. DAC. PM. TR. P. COS. VI PP., His laureated and draped bust to the right.
Reverse: SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Mars advancing to the right, holding spear and trophy.
Reference: RIC 269; Van Meter 32/3.
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.