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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7679527, member: 19463"]<b>SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS</b> (The Senate and the People of Rome) was the standard 'name' applied to the 'country' of Roma. It combines the powers of the ruling class (Senators) and the masses or ordinary citizens into one phrase. The phrase is commonly associated with Trajan who commonly used SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI (to the Best of Princes). We might add that there are many, many coins of Trajan with this reverse. Yours is weak in one or two letters which is just something you have to learn to live with. This is not an error of the die cutter but a combination of being made 1900 years ago and suffering from burial, retrieval and cleaning. Each of the coins below uses this legend and each suffers faults. When trying to read coins, it is good to seek other similar items for comparison and Wildwinds, as <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/hotwheelsearl.75143/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/hotwheelsearl.75143/">hotwheelsearl</a> pointed out, is a great help to this end. You might benefit practicing using Wildwinds by seeing if you can identify coins you see posted here without looking at posted 'answers' which you will find are not always correct. Below, there are no captions. You are capable of doing it yourself. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1319028[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319029[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319030[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319031[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319032[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319033[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319034[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319035[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7679527, member: 19463"][B]SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS[/B] (The Senate and the People of Rome) was the standard 'name' applied to the 'country' of Roma. It combines the powers of the ruling class (Senators) and the masses or ordinary citizens into one phrase. The phrase is commonly associated with Trajan who commonly used SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI (to the Best of Princes). We might add that there are many, many coins of Trajan with this reverse. Yours is weak in one or two letters which is just something you have to learn to live with. This is not an error of the die cutter but a combination of being made 1900 years ago and suffering from burial, retrieval and cleaning. Each of the coins below uses this legend and each suffers faults. When trying to read coins, it is good to seek other similar items for comparison and Wildwinds, as [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/members/hotwheelsearl.75143/']hotwheelsearl[/URL] pointed out, is a great help to this end. You might benefit practicing using Wildwinds by seeing if you can identify coins you see posted here without looking at posted 'answers' which you will find are not always correct. Below, there are no captions. You are capable of doing it yourself. [ATTACH=full]1319028[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319029[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319030[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319031[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319032[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319033[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319034[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1319035[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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