RIC II Trajan 551
Denomination: sestertius
Material: ae
Authority: trajan
Mint: rome
Manufacture: struck
Date: 0103 to 0111
Obverse legend: IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P
Obverse: Head of Trajan, laureate, right
Obverse portrait: trajan
Reverse legend: S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI S C
Reverse: Trajan, bare-headed, togate, standing left on base set on dais, adorned with festoons and four eagles, holding branch in right hand and vertical sceptre in left; he is crowned by Victory flying left and flanked by two eagles and a captive on either side
Reverse portrait: trajan