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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;singig, post: 4906825, member: 93672&quot;]Thank you all ! , very nice coins posted here from last night.</p><p>The &#039;&#039;Circus Maximus&#039;&#039; sestertius is special.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan was declared emperor immediately after Nerva&#039;s death in 98 , but during this time he was the governor of Germania Superior and he stayed with his troops there till 99 when he finally returned to Rome. During this small period of 12 months the mints in Rome didn&#039;t have an official portrait of Trajan , consequently the engravers used the Nerva portrait as a source of inspiration.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sequence of Trajan&#039;s portraits below represent the transition from his &#039;&#039;Nerva look&#039;&#039; portrait early COS II to the classical portrait used after the Dacian wars COS V - VI.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>I only have a sestertius with a real &#039;&#039;Nerva look&#039;&#039; portrait:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183966[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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