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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24705154, member: 26430"]A good opportunity to share my favorite portrait on any coin at all. I find her endlessly fascinating. I'm convinced this was an actual living person, presumably one of the Gallic captives brought back by Caesar (not in an "I can demonstrate it empirically" sort of way, but I believe it nonetheless). Her grimace makes clear what she thought of the Romans. (But the portrait shows a mysterious degree of respect by the Romans, as did the matching portrait Gallic male portrait denarius.)[ATTACH=full]1578343[/ATTACH] <blockquote>Roman Republic. L. Hostilius Saserna. AR Denarius (4,03g; 19mm; 8h). Rome, 48 BCE.Obverse: Head of Gallia (as Pallor), right; Gallic trumpet (carnyx) behind.Reverse: L•HOSTILIVS (right) / SASERNA (left). Diana / Artemis of Massalia (after the Ephesus original) standing facing, holding spear and stag by its antler.References: Crawford 448/3; Hostilia 4; Syd 953 </blockquote>[ATTACH=full]1578342[/ATTACH] Sometimes I wonder if the Romans also imprisoned a woman related to Vercingetorix (his wife? the Boudicca we never learned of?), or another important woman from Gallic culture, possibly to be killed at Caesar's Triumph alongside Vercingetorix? NEXT: Interesting Hair[/QUOTE]