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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4538078, member: 75937&quot;]My favorite transitional portrait is this provincial of Faustina II from Dioshieron. The die-engraver had no idea what the empress looked like, so he gave her a looped ponytail as worn by Agrippina II, Julia Titi, and Plotina:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-dioshieron-asklepios-naumann-jpg.1088131/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175/6.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 17.1 mm, 3.04 g, 7 h.</p><p>Lydia, Dioshieron, Magistrate L. Iouli. Mithres (Grammateus), AD 147-161.</p><p>Obv: ΦAVCTЄINA CЄBACTH, bare-headed and draped bust right, hair in a top-knot and looped ponytail.</p><p>Rev: ЄΠI MIΘPOV ΔIOCIЄPЄITΩN, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff.</p><p>Refs: RPC IV.2, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1236" rel="nofollow">1236</a> (temp); BMC 22.76, 12; SNG Cop 116; SNG Turkey 240-41; Waddington 4963.</p><p>Notes: Double-die match to Paris specimen (<a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8516942w" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8516942w" rel="nofollow">BNF</a>) and <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/168241" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/168241" rel="nofollow">Ashmolean specimen</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite Vespasian portrait is this corpulent and pointy-chinned visage on this posthumous issue:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123538[/ATTACH]</p><p>Divus Vespasian, d. AD 79</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 2.89 g, 17.8 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 80.</p><p>Obv: DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS, head of deified Vespasian, laureate, right. </p><p>Rev: Two capricorns, back-to-back, supporting shield inscribed S C; below, globe.</p><p>Refs: RIC 2.1, 357; BMCRE 129-131; Cohen 497; RCV 2569; CBN 101.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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