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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus Maximus, post: 3627270, member: 102867&quot;]Personally, I think there is another reason for the Nerva-like portraits.&nbsp; Trajan was named Caesar in 97 but was not in Rome at the time (He was in Germania).&nbsp; So there was no possibility to make a bust of the new Caesar.&nbsp; When Nerva died at the end of January 98.&nbsp; So there was no official bust of Trajan.&nbsp; The Mint of Rome, however, immediately started minting new coins.&nbsp; But they had no example bust, This led to the engravers mainly having to use their own creativity.&nbsp; There is a big difference in the early portrait period, some portraits seem like a combination of Domitian and Nerva, others only resemble Nerva and others more like Trajan himself.&nbsp; When Trajan saw the first coins, he was probably not satisfied.&nbsp; Presumably then a bust was quickly made in Cologne and sent to Rome as an example for the engravers.&nbsp; This is evidenced by the fact that the coins took on a much clearer style after a few months.&nbsp; When Trajan arrived in Rome in 99, he had more time to worry about the coins, from then on we see the idealized portrait.[ATTACH=full]972822[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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