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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: TRAJAN, AD 98-117. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. TRAIANO AVG. GER. DAC. (P)TR. P. COS. VI P. P. His laureated head to the right.
Reverse: S.P.Q.R. OPTIMO PRINCIPI. Spes walking left holding a flower and raising slightly the drapery of her dress.
Reference: RIC 279; Cohen 458.
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.