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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3077465, member: 75937&quot;]Here&#039;s a worn beauty, appreciated -- as yours -- for how difficult it is to acquire. I have seen it for sale only a few other times -- at a <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1049236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1049236" rel="nofollow">Rauch auction in 2011</a> and in a recent Pegasi auction. Not even the British Museum has an example in their collection. This denarius of Nerva was minted only during a few months of his reign when his coins carried the obverse inscription IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P II COS III P P.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]774355[/ATTACH] </p><p>Nerva, AD 96-98.</p><p>Roman AR denarius,</p><p>3.37 g, 16.5 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, Sept-Dec AD 97.</p><p>Obv: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P II COS III P P, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev: IVSTITIA AVGVST: Justitia, draped, seated right on low backed chair, feet on stool, holding long straight scepter in right and branch extended in left.</p><p>Refs: RIC 30; Cohen 103.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Pegasi auction specimen was struck with the same pair of dies:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]774357[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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