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Object Type
Museum number: R.11960
Denomination: sestertius
Description: Copper alloy coin. (whole); Head of Trajan, laureate, right. (obverse); View of the Circus Maximus, showing a colonnaded front, with arch surmounted by quadriga on right and left; a tetrastyle temple in the back colonnades; in the interior set on the 'spina' are a large obelisk and three smaller obelisks (metae) set on columns to left and right. (reverse)
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Cultures/periods
Production date: 104-111
Production place: Minted in: Rome (city)
Materials
Dimensions: Die-axis: 6 o'clock; Weight: 26.84 grammes
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: A commemoration of Trajan's rebuilding of the Circus Maximus.
Bibliographic references: RE3 / Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol.III: Nerva to Hadrian (854, p.180); RIC2 / The Roman imperial coinage, vol. 2: Vespasian to Hadrian (571, p.284) (type)
Location: On display (G69/dc19)
Subjects: emperor/empress; architecture; circus/hippodrome
Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Circus Maximus
Acquisition date: 1799
Acquisition notes: ? Stated as Cracherode Gift in BMC but no ticket.
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: R.11960
C&M catalogue number: RE3 (180) (854)

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