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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 7621806, member: 75143&quot;]One of my favorite things about Gallic empire coins is the interesting dichotomy between extremely naturalistic portraits and extremely abstract reverses.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311623[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here we have an excellent, naturalistic rendition of Postumus but the Victory on the reverse is a Picasso-esque exercise in abstraction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some art historians maintain that later Roman artists simply had neither the technical skill or motivation to make classically-attractive art.</p><p>This is not true, as we can see in one single coin both extremes of Roman artistic styles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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