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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4499239, member: 110350&quot;]According to the Woytek &amp; Butcher article quoted above, 75% of the Trajan camel drachms have what they call obverse bust type &quot;f,&quot; which they describe as</p><p>&quot;Laureate bust of Trajan right, in cuirass (with pteryges visible at the shoulder) and</p><p>paludamentum, which is held together on the shoulder with a fibula, seen from</p><p>behind.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is their illustration showing five examples of bust type &quot;f,&quot; from Plate 14 at the end of the article:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115795[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>According to the article, Example 7 comes from a May 21, 2013 Roma Numismatics auction, Lot 767.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a larger image of the coin, from the Numisbid auction archives:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115796[/ATTACH]</p><p>Am I imagining things to think this coin is from dies very similar to my example, which I&#039;ll show again here?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115798[/ATTACH]</p><p>The reverse looks essentially identical to me (including the legend), and the obverse portrait (including the cuirass portion) looks very similar to me as well, with the major exception that the laurel wreath on Trajan&#039;s head is different.&nbsp; Certainly, my coin is much closer to this one than to any of the article&#039;s other examples, and clearly falls within category &quot;f.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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