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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 2935406, member: 83845"]Fantastic post! Thank you for those additions. The Antioch, Lugdunum and Ticinum mint portraits are particularly fascinating and I did some reading on them but I didn't include some of what I read because I thought the article was getting rather long enough <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Most of these mints seemed to have produced conservative portraits based on previous styles just like Rome except... Lugdunum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lugdunum is perplexing. How did they come up with the unique portrait of Diocletian? It seems strange that the style is so different and that Maximian is portrayed so noticeably different than Diocletian. I didn't touch much in the essay on Maximian's portraiture but link 3 in my references has some neat information on the context of one of his more realistic sculptural depictions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also most of the coins shown in the comparison are from the CNG archives. I can dream that all those gold coins were mine though...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 2935406, member: 83845"]Fantastic post! Thank you for those additions. The Antioch, Lugdunum and Ticinum mint portraits are particularly fascinating and I did some reading on them but I didn't include some of what I read because I thought the article was getting rather long enough :). Most of these mints seemed to have produced conservative portraits based on previous styles just like Rome except... Lugdunum. Lugdunum is perplexing. How did they come up with the unique portrait of Diocletian? It seems strange that the style is so different and that Maximian is portrayed so noticeably different than Diocletian. I didn't touch much in the essay on Maximian's portraiture but link 3 in my references has some neat information on the context of one of his more realistic sculptural depictions. Also most of the coins shown in the comparison are from the CNG archives. I can dream that all those gold coins were mine though...[/QUOTE]
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