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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4415531, member: 19463&quot;]Actually, if you look at the group photo posted by Q, Pius does seem to be more &#039;correct&#039; than the others.&nbsp; One of his Septimius Severus coins is more normal looking than the other so there will be some variations within the series.&nbsp; When issued, there were few people alive who had seen any but the latest of the honored emperors and relatively few of the 100+ year old coins were still in circulation so the errors in appearance meant little.&nbsp; I do not consider them all that bad and believe someone familiar with the series (e.g. Q) would be able to sort them by portrait with little trouble.&nbsp; I am a bit surprised that the portraits of Trajan used did not have some greater resemblance to Decius.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Modern people have a mind-picture of Cleopatra a bit too much like Elizabeth Taylor (at least they did 50 years ago when people recognized Elizabeth Taylor).&nbsp; If you did not hear about this, history may remember Dr. Fauci of Covid fame most for his suggestion that he be portrayed by Brad Pitt.....</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saturday-night-live-brad-pitt-portrays-dr-fauci-snl/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saturday-night-live-brad-pitt-portrays-dr-fauci-snl/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saturday-night-live-brad-pitt-portrays-dr-fauci-snl/</a></p><p>...and it came true.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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