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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2495169, member: 19463&quot;]I have so little 12 Caesars experience I&#039;m not getting these but the aurei seemed easier.&nbsp; As I see it a lot of a test like this is whether the images are selected to be typical.&nbsp; I have a Vitellius with portrait that looks like Otho and several Severans that are just plain odd.&nbsp; I suspect we could make a test using oddball coins that would make 50% a good score.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot has to do with how many coins you handle.&nbsp; I once made an image of coins of Philip I to illustrate his Greek lettered officina reverses but included an obverse of Philip from his numbered officina series because I did not own a duplicate and shot the coins all together rather than piecing them together.&nbsp;&nbsp; Curtis Clay called me on the error.&nbsp; It bothered him that the obverse I showed was used with those reverses.&nbsp; He did not even mention that two of the reverses in the set have portraits of other family members.&nbsp; That was so obvious that it would bother no one.&nbsp; Perhaps Curtis has looked at too many coins of Philip???&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/phltrgrp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If TIF wants to take this ball and run with it, I would suggest posting a group of faces and asking how many different rulers were shown.&nbsp;&nbsp; This test could be made a lot harder if you put in a couple ringers that were not from the 12 but just other people on coins.&nbsp; I tried quizzes like this that do not allow Googling answers for a page on my site.&nbsp; It was among the least popular pages I ever did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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