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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3722629, member: 101855&quot;]I don&#039;t know about beauty, but this is one of the more interesting coins I have from the Roman Republic era.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]997893[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]997894[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is an American coin, but it&#039;s relevant because Theodore Roosevelt was looking to emulate the high relief Greek coins when he asked Augustus St. Gaudens to replace the “atrociously hideous” U.S. coin designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]997897[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]997898[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Given that the Roman coins were hammer strikes, it is remarkable that they were able to get good high relief porttaits on the majority of their coins. Here is a denarius of Hadrian. in this case, both sides struck up well.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]997895[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]997896[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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