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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7954350, member: 99456&quot;]Congrats on the Nerva &amp; return to coin shows, [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER].&nbsp; It would probably make and interesting thread &quot;<i><b>why I regret purchasing this coin?</b></i>&quot; I can think of many categories: &quot;not as nice as I initially thought&quot;, &quot;not the variant I had imagined&quot;, &quot;why did I think that price was reasonable&quot;, &quot;why didn&#039;t I notice that obvious flaw&quot;, &quot;why didn&#039;t I examine more carefully&quot;....&nbsp; or in the case of this coin: &quot;<i><b>Does this make any sense in my collection?</b></i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a coin of Trajan, who had a much less interesting nose than Nerva.&nbsp; This coin is not a Roman Republican/first century BC coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378653[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Imperial, Trajan</b> Æ As (10.45g, 27.5mm, 6h), Rome, struck AD 103 - AD 111</p><p><b>Obv:</b> IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate bust right, slight drapery</p><p><b>Rev:</b> SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Salus, draped, seated left on throne, with patera in extended right hand feeding snake coiled up round lighted altar; resting left arm on arm of throne</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC Trajan <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.515_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.515_as" rel="nofollow">515 As</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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