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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 5327180, member: 98035&quot;]Superb write-up!</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked up an example of the type earlier in the year, which I think I have posted a couple times- coinage of Sabina in general is not common, but deification issues are scarce and don&#039;t often appear at auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine has the elaborately coiled hairstyle that rarely makes an appearance on her coinage, but was commonplace on that of her mother and grandmother, who were also deified</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1225250[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another 2020 add was a perhaps more rare consecration issue for her husband - I wonder if the Romans believed that in the afterlife she was finally free of him, or if her soul was bound to forever suffer as he sought to eternally continue his affair with the (also deified) Antinous</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1225251[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the coins side by side, I wonder if the portraits were engraved by the same hand? Certainly would make sense, I am sensing the same feeling of gravitas from both examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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