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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7164375, member: 44316&quot;]My favorite emperor is Trajan. Competitors for the title would be Augustus if his coins were less expensive and Gallienus, who has both the zoo and legionary series. Recently I have been interested in the First Tetrarchy, so that adds Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius, and Galerius to the long list of very interesting emperors, but no one of them alone is as interesting as Trajan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of Trajan&#039;s coins have a historical reference. I wrote a page on them, at first emphasizing Dacian wars and then his other historical types:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Trajan/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Trajan/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Trajan/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one that is not on my site because it does not have a clear historical reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1274648[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sestertius. 33 mm. Lovely green patina, flacking in spots.</p><p>IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC PM TRP COS V PP</p><p>SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI</p><p>Ceres draped, holding grain-ears above modius, and long scepter.</p><p>RIC 480 &quot;103-109&quot;</p><p>BMC 771 &quot;104-111&quot;</p><p>Hill 342 &quot;107&quot;</p><p>ex Waddell list 60, summer 1993, lot 98[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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