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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2117450, member: 57495"]Nice Gaius! I was intrigued enough to look up the type online. Given that in the G-N auction yours was correctly described as having "Bare head of Gaius Caesar right", I think their giving it to Augustus was just a bit of sloppiness. What I found more curious was that in their other two auctions, they described the portrait as "Bare head of Julius Caesar right", which is at least a little misleading, even if his full name was Gaius <b>Julius Caesar</b>. </p><p><br /></p><p>I thought you might also be interested in seeing several other examples that came up on acsearch :</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=2900+polemon&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=2900+polemon&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=2900+polemon&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours still looks like the finest one around, even taking into account the one sold by G&M for almost $800.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2117450, member: 57495"]Nice Gaius! I was intrigued enough to look up the type online. Given that in the G-N auction yours was correctly described as having "Bare head of Gaius Caesar right", I think their giving it to Augustus was just a bit of sloppiness. What I found more curious was that in their other two auctions, they described the portrait as "Bare head of Julius Caesar right", which is at least a little misleading, even if his full name was Gaius [B]Julius Caesar[/B]. I thought you might also be interested in seeing several other examples that came up on acsearch : [url]http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=2900+polemon&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1¤cy=usd&order=0&company=[/url] Yours still looks like the finest one around, even taking into account the one sold by G&M for almost $800.[/QUOTE]
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