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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7450540, member: 85693&quot;]This proved to be a very helpful thread to me today, thus the bring-back.&nbsp; Working through a big lot of Roman, etc. stuff from eBay, I thought what I was sure I was the proud owner of a very cruddy Nerva as.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean, look at that schnozz!&nbsp; And the long turkey-neck too.&nbsp; That&#039;s gotta be Nerva, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1291971[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Nope.&nbsp; For one thing, I believe that is a radiate crown, therefore a dupondius - it looks brassy too, although it only weighs 8.78 grams.&nbsp; There are no dupondii for Nerva with a seated reverse figure - which took me an hour to figure out.&nbsp; There are however several such issues for Trajan, during the first year of his rule.&nbsp; Thus the Nerva-nose, as this thread so ably postulates.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is pretty cruddy, and I haven&#039;t worked out a full attribution yet - RIC 382 Abundantia sitting on cornucopiae, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1291972[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to [USER=90981]@Shea19[/USER] and all who contributed.&nbsp; This thread was a big help.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S.&nbsp; Here is one from the British Museum with the Nerva nose. </p><p><br /></p><p>collection: <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-11858" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-11858" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-11858</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1291983[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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