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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7971565, member: 110350"]I don't believe those two Terentia coins had anything to do with Cicero's first wife Terentia. Rather, they were coins issued by the Terentia <i>gens</i> (roughly, family) more than a century before the lifetime of Cicero's wife. That website is rather confusing in the way it refers to both in succession without explanation. In any event, I don't think there were any Roman Republican coins issued by or in the name of women, and although many women were portrayed, nobody was portrayed while they were alive (until Julius Caesar first violated that tradition), and I'm pretty sure that until the Imperatorial period, when there were coins portraying Fulvia and Octavia, they were all goddesses and personifications rather than real people anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>That Apollo is a bit pop-eyed. In general, I don't think the coins of Gaius's father Lucius are as artistic as the son's. Here's my example, in which Apollo is sort of funny-looking as well:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1382836[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7971565, member: 110350"]I don't believe those two Terentia coins had anything to do with Cicero's first wife Terentia. Rather, they were coins issued by the Terentia [I]gens[/I] (roughly, family) more than a century before the lifetime of Cicero's wife. That website is rather confusing in the way it refers to both in succession without explanation. In any event, I don't think there were any Roman Republican coins issued by or in the name of women, and although many women were portrayed, nobody was portrayed while they were alive (until Julius Caesar first violated that tradition), and I'm pretty sure that until the Imperatorial period, when there were coins portraying Fulvia and Octavia, they were all goddesses and personifications rather than real people anyway. That Apollo is a bit pop-eyed. In general, I don't think the coins of Gaius's father Lucius are as artistic as the son's. Here's my example, in which Apollo is sort of funny-looking as well: [ATTACH=full]1382836[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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