Trajan, Silver Denarius Capture of Cartagena

Capture of Cartagena

to upper right of exergue for designer Benedetto Pistrucci

in original dated black oblong case of issue

Madinat al-Salam

Trajan, Silver Denarius Capture of CartagenaTrajan (A. D. 98 117), Silver Denarius. Mint of Rome, struck A. D. 112 7. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P, laureate and draped bust facing right, rev. CONSERVATORI PATRIS PATRIAE, Jupiter, naked but for a chlamys, standing left, holding a sceptre and extending his right hand above the smaller figure of Trajan, togate, standing left, holding up a branch, 3. 61g., 7h (RIC 249; C 47). An attractive reverse type, broad flan, nearly extremely