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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 24841789, member: 99456&quot;][USER=99412]@PeteB[/USER] has a nice one for sale here: <a href="http://akropoliscoins.com/page4a.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://akropoliscoins.com/page4a.html" rel="nofollow">http://akropoliscoins.com/page4a.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the link to my coin - not written up yet on my blog.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/roman-republic?pgid=kezu10xh-ff194168-6c7d-4a18-92cd-9a015c267a7c" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/roman-republic?pgid=kezu10xh-ff194168-6c7d-4a18-92cd-9a015c267a7c" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/roman-republic?pgid=kezu10xh-ff194168-6c7d-4a18-92cd-9a015c267a7c</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The main theme of this coin is the Achievements of C. Coelius CAldus Connsul in 94 and ancestor of the moneyer (C. Coelius Caldus, Quaestor of 50 BC)</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">&quot;The coin portrait presumably was modeled after an original sculpture of Caldus from the time of his consulship, c. 94 B.C.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4">-Gazda, Elaine K. “<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4166315" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4166315" rel="nofollow">Two Roman Portrait Reliefs.</a>” The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 1 (1974): 61–72.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t quite sure what you meant by &quot;direct link&quot;? happy to have any advice on how to best link.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do decide to sell yours - let me know (PM).</p><p><br /></p><p>The personalization of Roman denarii definitely picked up as time went on.&nbsp; No one issued coins with pictures of themselves - just pictures of their ancestors - until Julius Caesar decided that norms and laws should not apply to him, and the Roman republic never recovered....soon only one portrait mattered and everyone served the emperor - no matter how delusional he was.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1591350[/ATTACH]</p><p>Commodus as Hercules</p><p><a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/commodus-the-best-of-men" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/commodus-the-best-of-men" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/commodus-the-best-of-men</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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