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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3630146, member: 85693&quot;]Thanks for the tip - you have a good eye, Ancient Aussie.&nbsp; I think this is a match to mine because I just did an OCRE search and found only one dupondius matching what little can be seen of mine:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse:</b>&nbsp; includes the legend OPTIMO (my lousy photos don&#039;t show this, but it is visible in hand)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Reverse:</b>&nbsp; standing figure with cornucopiae</p><p><br /></p><p>If I&#039;m interpreting this right, RIC 674 appears to be the only match for these two items.&nbsp; Here is my OCRE search - it pulled up 8 hits, but the OPTIMO on the obverse is only on RIC 674 (the other 7 have OPTIMO on the reverse). </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=denomination_facet%3A%22Dupondius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Trajan%22+AND+fulltext%3AOPTIMO+AND+fulltext%3AOPTIMO+AND+fulltext%3Astanding+AND+fulltext%3Acornucopiae" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=denomination_facet%3A%22Dupondius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Trajan%22+AND+fulltext%3AOPTIMO+AND+fulltext%3AOPTIMO+AND+fulltext%3Astanding+AND+fulltext%3Acornucopiae" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=denomination_facet:&quot;Dupondius&quot;+AND+portrait_facet:&quot;Trajan&quot;+AND+fulltext:OPTIMO+AND+fulltext:OPTIMO+AND+fulltext:standing+AND+fulltext:cornucopiae</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>I[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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