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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2978443, member: 19463&quot;]Early Trajan portraits look a lot like Nerva.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]732320[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There are several minor variants of portrait style that make it harder to find coins in catalogs.&nbsp; This looks like a head rather than a bust but it has drapery on the far shoulder and heads are not suppose to have shoulders.&nbsp; Trajan issued many coins with the legend SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI.&nbsp; The next four share this legend.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]732321[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Large flan sestertii and small letters allow long legends.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]732322[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Asses are smaller so their letters have to be smalle to fit in all those titles.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]732324[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This as and the last two coins point out Trajan was a military man.&nbsp; There are many reverse types not seen with most rulers.&nbsp; Whose shilds are these? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]732331[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this may be a fourree from the bulge behind Trajan&#039;s head but I&#039;m not sure it does not just have a inclusion in the mix that has swollen.&nbsp; I am not willing to cut the coin to know for sure.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]732327[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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