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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7732904, member: 85693&quot;]Here is a very early Trajan, and in keeping with the OP, this awful dupondius of Trajan has a Nerva-like nose.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>With thanks to [USER=102867]@Parthicus Maximus[/USER] [USER=93672]@singig[/USER] [USER=90981]@Shea19[/USER] and others for background information on why Trajan was so beaky on the early issues of his reign.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-trajan-additions.367713/page-2#post-4907118" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-trajan-additions.367713/page-2#post-4907118">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-trajan-additions.367713/page-2#post-4907118</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/early-denarius-of-trajan-with-a-nerva-like-portrait.343440/#post-7450540" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/early-denarius-of-trajan-with-a-nerva-like-portrait.343440/#post-7450540">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/early-denarius-of-trajan-with-a-nerva-like-portrait.343440/#post-7450540</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1324590[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1324591[/ATTACH] </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Trajan&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Dupondius</b></p><p><b>(98-99 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M] radiate head right with Nerva-like features / [TR P COS II P P] S C, Abundantia seated l. on crossed cornucopiae, holding sceptre.</p><p>RIC 382-387 (legends worn). </p><p>(12.68 grams / 26 mm)</p><p>eBay April 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lot @ $1.24</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes:&nbsp; </b>&quot;I think there is another reason for the Nerva-like portraits. Trajan was named Caesar in 97 but was not in Rome at the time (He was in Germania).&nbsp; So there was no possibility to make a bust of the new Caesar. When Nerva died at the end of January 98, there was no official bust of Trajan.&nbsp; The Mint of Rome, however, immediately started minting new coins. But they had no example bust...&quot;</p><p>Coin Talk Parthicus Maximus June 2019[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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