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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3911350, member: 85693&quot;]What a bunch of nice coins.&nbsp; Over the weekend I was giving thanks for a couple of Imperial AE&#039;s I&#039;d just received. </p><p><br /></p><p>This one in particular made me work.&nbsp; A Trajan dupondius with a variation in the reverse legend that I could only find on Wildwinds (from a 2010 Roma Numis. auction, with a 1922 Chester Museum note).&nbsp; The Wildwinds example might be a die-match to mine, which made me pretty happy (but feel free to disabuse me) - note the squashed globe on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>My coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1030912[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roma Numismatics/Wildwinds:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1030911[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My attribution notes: </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Trajan&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Dupondius</b></p><p><b>(114-117 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Rome Mint </b></p><p>IMP CAES N[ER TRAIAN]OOPTIMO AVG GER DAC PARTHICO PM TR[P COS VI P P], radiate draped bust right / PROVIDENTI<b>AE</b> AVGVSTI SPQR SC, Providentia std. left, elbow on column, globe at feet.</p><p>RIC 665 var.; Cohen 322 var.</p><p>(13.13 grams / 27 mm)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Roma Numismatics, May, 2010 Note: This coin is not in RIC and not in any other catalogues. However, there is a mention of one with the same rev. legend PROVIDENTI<b>AE</b>...was donated to Chester Museum (Chester, England) in 1922 as part of a small find of coins. I am currently trying to find out whether the coin is still in Cheshire and whether the reverse legend of that coin was read</p><p>correctly.&quot; (Wildwinds)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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