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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 4905958, member: 75496&quot;]Nice Trajans!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Trajan denarius with Abundantia,</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-denarius-jpg.1101706/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan (98-117 AD). AR Denarius. Rome, 98 AD. Laureate head right / Abundantia seated left on chair formed by crossed cornucopia, holding scepter. 17 mm. 3.4 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s what&#039;s left of a likely Trajan drachm after repurposing. Here comes the re-strike <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:[ATTACH=full]1183687[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/bar-kokhba-zuz-png.1152507/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Judaea, Bar Kokhba Revolt. Silver Zuz (3.25 g), 132-135 AD. Undated, attributed to year 3 (134/5 AD). &#039;Simon&#039; (Paleo-Hebrew), bunch of grapes with leaf and tendril. / &#039;For the freedom of Jerusalem&#039; (Paleo-Hebrew), upright palm branch. Hendin 1430; David Hendin Guide to BIBLICAL COINS, Fifth Edition, plate 40, (this coin illus.); Mildenberg 150 (O11/R103), 7 cited, this being #5. <b>Portions of the undertype legend visible on obverse from the obverse of a Drachm, probably of Trajan and probably of Caesaria.</b> The letters AYTOK can be discerned, these being part of the title AYTOKRATΩR - autocrat, dictator, tyrant, despot. Ex David Hendin Collection.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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