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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 9889794, member: 101855"]It doesn't look real to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have to worry, because, at best, this guy was a small time usurper. I tend to think this thing was made hundreds of years later, if not more than thousand years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something like this is far more convincing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1522832[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninianus of Trajan Decius, Obverse: IMP C M Q TRAIAMVS DECIVS AVG “Emperor caesar Messius Quintus Trajan Decius augustus.” Revere: DACIA Dacia standing, holding a Dacian standard surmounted by a wolf’s head. The symbol of the Dacian people was dragon with a wolf-like head on it. Sear 9368</p><p><br /></p><p>I am probably off-base, but the "wolf's head" thing makes me think of the Dracula and Wolfman legends. Count Dracula was from that area, about 1,200 years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 9889794, member: 101855"]It doesn't look real to me. I don't have to worry, because, at best, this guy was a small time usurper. I tend to think this thing was made hundreds of years later, if not more than thousand years later. Something like this is far more convincing. [ATTACH=full]1522832[/ATTACH] Antoninianus of Trajan Decius, Obverse: IMP C M Q TRAIAMVS DECIVS AVG “Emperor caesar Messius Quintus Trajan Decius augustus.” Revere: DACIA Dacia standing, holding a Dacian standard surmounted by a wolf’s head. The symbol of the Dacian people was dragon with a wolf-like head on it. Sear 9368 I am probably off-base, but the "wolf's head" thing makes me think of the Dracula and Wolfman legends. Count Dracula was from that area, about 1,200 years later.[/QUOTE]
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