Description
This coin is a Roman Imperial silver coin minted the during the reign of the Emperor Trajan, 98-117 AD. The obverse shows the laureate head of Trajan right, and the reverse depicts a bundle of six ears of grain.
Trajan prioritized protecting and expanding the Roman Empire. He twice defeated the people from the region of Dacia, where modern-day Romania is located. He used the bountiful plunder from these victories to fund public works projects in Rome. These included a spacious new forum with two libraries and a massive stone column called Trajan’s Column. The column was covered in carvings depicting the victory over the Dacians and still stands today. It is one of the largest monuments to survive the fall of Rome.During his 19-year reign, Trajan expanded the Roman Empire to its farthest territorial limits up until that date. The empire stretched from Scotland down to North Africa and swept east across the Mediterranean as far as Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq.
