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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3888194, member: 75937&quot;]Here&#039;s one with a long inscription, requiring both obverse and reverse to contain it. More importantly, enough of the titulature is complete (<i>Traiano</i>, <i>optimo</i> and <i>Parthico</i>) to determine that nearly the entire thing is in the dative case, with the probable exception of <i>tribunicio potestate</i> being in the ablative (&quot;with tribunician power&quot;) and <i>patriae</i> being in the genitive (&quot;of the country&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-dac-parthico-p-m-tr-pot-xx-cos-vi-p-p-as-jpg.793788/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM / DAC PARTHICO P M TR POT XX COS VI P P.</p><p><br /></p><p>I reconstruct the legend as IMP[ERATORI] CAES[ARO] NER[VAE] TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG[VSTO] GERM[ANICO] DAC[ICO] PARTHICO P[ONTIFICI] M[AXIMO] TR[IBVNICIO] (abl.) POT[ESTATE] (abl.) XX CO[N]S[VLI] VI P[ATRI] P[ATRIAE] (gen.), meaning &quot;To the Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan, the best, revered defeater of the Germans, defeater of the Dacians, defeater of the Parthians, highest priest, with tribunician power for the twentieth time, consul for the sixth time, father of the country.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: Bucranium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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