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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Greek Coins| ▸ |Geographic - All Periods| ▸ |Thrace & Moesia| ▸ |Dacia||View Options:   | | | The eagle and the lion are symbols of the Legions V Macedonica and XIII Gemina, which were quartered in Provincia Dacia. |
The Dacian Kingdom existed between 82 B.C. until the Trajan's conquest in 106 A.D. This coin commemorates Trajan Decius' recovery of Roman Dacia from rebelling Carpo-Dacians. The province was abandoned by Aurelian in 275, recovered again by Constantine the Great by 336, but abandoned again permanently soon after Constantine's death.RB93309. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 113(b) (R); Cohen V 28, SRCV III 9400, Hunter III - (p. xcvii), VF, superb portrait, flow lines, tight squared flan cutting off parts of legends, small edge cracks, obverse porous, weight 15.669 g, maximum diameter 28.0 mm, die axis 0o, Rome mint, 250 - 251 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES C MESS Q DECIO TRAI AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, from behind; reverse DACIA, Dacia standing half left, wearing robe reaching feet, Roman standard in right hand, S - C (senatus consulto) divided across field; from the Errett Bishop Collection; rare;
Geto-Dacian(?), c. 75 - 105 A.D., Imitative of Vespasian or Titus Denarius
Tribal peoples outside the Empire struck coinage imitative of Roman types beginning in the second century B.C. and continued to strike imitative types even after the Western Empire ceased to exist.CE68897. Silver denarius, Davis I4 (this coin); for possible Roman prototype see RIC Vespasian 702 and 705 (emperor seated right), F+, weight 3.319 g, maximum diameter 18.7 mm, die axis 0o, tribal mint, c. 75 - 105 A.D.; obverse laureate head of Vespasian or Titus right, blundered legend around; reverse Emperor seated left, branch in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, blundered legend around; from the Jyrki Muona Collection, ex Gemini LLC auction IX, lot 739, ex Phillip Davis Collection, said to have been found in Romania; very rare; SOLD
Dacia, After 85 B.C., Imitative of Roman Republic, Types of Mn Fonteius
Imitatives of Roman Republic Denarii, such as this one, are often identified as Celtic, but Philip Davis convincingly argues that most of these denarii are probably Dacian.RR63690. Silver denarius, cf. Davis M108, Davis Apvlvm XLIII 81 and 83, Crawford 353/1a (official, Rome mint), VF, weight 3.020 g, maximum diameter 17.3 mm, die axis 180o, Rome mint, c. 85 B.C.; obverse bare head right, branch behind, no legend; reverse Cupid seated on goat right, caps of the Dioscuri above, thyrsus of Bacchus in exergue all within laurel wreath; SOLD
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