IMPTRAIANOOPTIMO AVG GERDAC P M TR P, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan to right.
PROFECTIO AUGUSTI, Traianus, in military dress and hold spear, on horse walking to right; before him, soldier walking right, head turned back to left; behind, three soldiers walking right.
IMPSEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate head to right, draped bust;
PROFECTIO AVGVSTI, Alexander Severus on horse, holding transverse spear, preceded by Victoria, with a crown and palm.
coined in 231/232.
The profectio ("setting forth") was the ceremonial departure of a consul in his guise as a general in Republican Rome,[5] and of an emperor during the Imperial era.[6] It was a conventional scene for relief sculpture and imperial coinage.[7] The return was the reditus[8] and the ceremonial reentry the adventus.[9]
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^Roman Imperial Coinage, Traianus, II, 297; BMC 512 var. Calicó 986a. Cohen 40 var. Hill 690.