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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 3406304, member: 77226&quot;]Great coins everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I love that Gordian as Caesar, a snapshot at a short moment in time! I&#039;ve been looking for a Gordian as Caesar in my price range for a long time and have yet to find the right coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like this one was started as AS... then there was a new guy! The back of the head and maybe the smile reminds me of AS while the rest is an attempt at a likeness of someone they didn&#039;t really know what they looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting! I don&#039;t know Julia Soaemias&#039; portraits very well but I should... I&#039;ll be looking for one now.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Great coin Bing! I have yet to take the plunge on buying an Otho... maybe Vespasian as Otho is the way to go! A very interesting moment in history.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That portrait sure has the Caracalla &#039;tough guy&#039; look huh? Those provincial coins of that era are great.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oooh... I was eyeing that coin too before you bought it. A great score. If you&#039;re going to have one coin of Balbinus, that&#039;s the one to have!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice Gordians! That one on the left looks much older than it should... for sure a carryover from earlier portrait traits. It is possible to determine mints by style. Look at a lot of coins from Rome and Antioch (or eastern mint) and you&#039;ll start to see some style differences. Rome is more classic and realistic, while the eastern mints are a bit more stylized. The problem is that portraits already had started to vary so much and become a little less exact. The crisis of the third century on the way![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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