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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 3323879, member: 4910&quot;]I found a picture in an old art book which was a portrait of a man holding a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_painting_memling_man.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Hans Memling, Man Holding a Roman Coin, painted around 1480</p><p><br /></p><p>A closeup of the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_painting_memling_coin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin has been identified as a sestertius of Nero struck in Lyons.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin&#039;s obverse legend appears close to &quot;NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP PP&quot; and there are around ten coins in the Roman Imperial Coins catalog matching this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The painting is in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp which produced the above public domain photograph</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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