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Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D.
In 100 A.D. Pliny the Younger advanced to the consulship, giving his panegyric on Trajan in the process. On 24 August 79, he along with his uncle, Pliny the Elder, witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius, during which his uncle died. Pliny rose through the cursus honorum, a series of Imperial civil and military offices. He wrote hundreds of letters, many of which still survive, that are of great historical value for the time period. Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus. His letters to Trajan provide one of the few surviving records of the relationship between the imperial office and provincial governors.RS111206. Silver denarius, Woytek 68b, RIC II 33 var. (no drapery), BnF IV 77 var. (same), BMCRE IV 64 var. (same), RSC II 227a var. (same), Hunter II 21 var. (same), SRCV II -, aVF, well centered, toned, scratches, Rome mint, weight 2.727g, maximum diameter 18.5mm, die axis 180o, 1 Jan - Oct(?) 100 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder; reverse P M TR P COS III P P (Pontifex Maximus, Tribunitia Potestas, Consul Tertium, Pater Patre - High priest, holder of tribunitian power, consul the 3rd time, father of the country), Concordia seated left on low seat without back, offering from patera in right hand over flaming and garlanded altar on left, single cornucopia in left hand; from the Michael Arslan Collection; rare bust variety; SOLD
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