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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3712282, member: 19463&quot;]Another sign this coin is early in the reign is the use of NERVA on the obverse.&nbsp; In general, new emperors tended to start referring to their predecessor more fully, then abbreviating and finally simplifying to just their name after everyone knew them as legitimate.&nbsp; Watch for NERVATRAIN and NERTRAIN&nbsp; coins.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]994868[/ATTACH] </p><p>Later you will find early Hadrian coins mentioning Trajan.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]994869[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also in general, be careful not to impose &#039;rules&#039; of how titles must be done that have been developed by modern scholars but were not known to the emperors.&nbsp; TRP is more likely to lack a numeral than is COS but that does not mean there was an error using the unnumbered one.&nbsp; IMP is similar but more likely to be numbered when used at the end of a legend than when used at the start.&nbsp; They made the &#039;rules&#039; as they went along.&nbsp; It is our job to accept their way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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