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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3137766, member: 75937&quot;]I assume you are confident the reverse reads S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, because there is a later series which has SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS S C.</p><p><br /></p><p>579-580 have the obverse legend IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P. 579 has laureate head right. 580 is similar but the bust also has an aegis. Here&#039;s the listing:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]801568[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The tricky thing is that 579 is illustrated in the plates, and even though the listing says nothing about eagles at the base of the column, there are obviously two things flanking the base of the column:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]801580[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin, however, doesn&#039;t come up when I <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=trajan+sestertius+column" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=trajan+sestertius+column" rel="nofollow">search the British Museum collection for &quot;Trajan sestertius column.&quot;</a></p><p><br /></p><p>However, those two things don&#039;t resemble the eagles at the base in the BMC&#039;s examples of RIC 600, below, nor do they resemble what flank the base of the column on your coin. They are probably supposed to be eagles, nonetheless, and I wouldn&#039;t put a lot of faith in the appearance of these when it comes to attributing your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>600 - 602 have the obverse legend IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P. 600 has laureate head right with slight drapery; 601 is without the drapery; 602 is similar but the bust also has an aegis. There are two eagles at the base of the column on the reverse. Here&#039;s the listing:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]801572[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe yours has the eagles at the base (see BMC examples, below). I don&#039;t see slight drapery on the shoulder or an aegis. Yours is probably 601 (but could be 579).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the British Museum&#039;s examples of 600 (they don&#039;t have the others):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]801578[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]801579[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=293817" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=293817" rel="nofollow">Here</a>&#039;s an example of 601 from CNG&#039;s archives:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]801584[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically, it comes down to whether it has COS V or COS VI on the obverse legend or whether those things flanking the column on 579 are eagles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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