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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3054413, member: 19463"]Trajan was emperor 98-117 AD. Trajan Decius was, as you say, 249-251. When the name Trajan is used by itself, it always means the great, earlier one. Usually the later man is called by both names together as one name "Trajan Decius" but sometimes we see just Decius. There are no coins of Decius which do not have name Decius except for a few TRADEC abbreviations. Never just TRAIANVS.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]764575[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>No, Dacia is a place. Decius was a person. That both are similar does not mean the man was a personification. Dacia, the personification was a woman with a very distinctive dragon headed staff shown on these coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3054413, member: 19463"]Trajan was emperor 98-117 AD. Trajan Decius was, as you say, 249-251. When the name Trajan is used by itself, it always means the great, earlier one. Usually the later man is called by both names together as one name "Trajan Decius" but sometimes we see just Decius. There are no coins of Decius which do not have name Decius except for a few TRADEC abbreviations. Never just TRAIANVS. [ATTACH=full]764575[/ATTACH] No, Dacia is a place. Decius was a person. That both are similar does not mean the man was a personification. Dacia, the personification was a woman with a very distinctive dragon headed staff shown on these coins.[/QUOTE]
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