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RIC II Trajan 656

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RIC II Trajan 656, Sestertius, Bronze, struck at Rome, 114–117 AD. Obverse: bust of trajan, laureate, draped, right. Reverse: trajan, in military dress, seated right on high platform on left, by him stand two officers; in front of him stand an officer and six soldiers whom he is haranguing; behind in background, three standards. Weight about 27.1 g.
obverse RIC II Trajan 656
mint Rome weight 27.05g (1)
ruler Trajan diameter ⌀ (0)
denomination Sestertius axis ↕ (0)
material Bronze technique Struck
country Roman Empire dataset OCRE — Online Coins of the Roman Empire
ODC-ODbL
obverse

Bust of Trajan, laureate, draped, right

IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P
reverse

Trajan, in military dress, seated right on high platform on left, by him stand two officers; in front of him stand an officer and six soldiers whom he is haranguing; behind in background, three standards

IMPERATOR VIII S C
specimens (1)
RIC II Trajan 656, bnf_ocre
BnF (National Library of France) 27.05g

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RIC II Trajan 656 (ric.2.tr.656), 114–117 AD. Corpus Apertum Nummorum Orbis Antiqui (CANOA). https://canoanumis.org/coins/ric-ii-trajan-656/ (accessed: 2026-10-08). Full citation guidance: How to cite CANOA