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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 8077303, member: 10613&quot;]I have wondered if the captives portrayed on these coins even looked like Sarmatians...they seem more Germanic to me. Sarmatians are usually depicted as having beards in images from Trajan&#039;s Column</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1402064[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>and coins issued by Marcus Aurelius seem to show bearded Sarmatian captives; but styles may have changed by the 4th century. Commodus also issued some coins celebrating a victory over Sarmatians, but from the examples I have seen I could not tell if they were bearded or not. My sample size is not very large for these Marcus Aurelius and Commodus coins either. Of course, they could just be an idealized concept of a captive and not have to be an accurate physical representation.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ALAMANNIA DEVICTA type issued at about the same time has an almost identical reverse to the SARMATIA type including the captives, which makes me think even more that these captives are not styled on any actual living people, but only portray an idea of &quot;barbarianism&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1402063[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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