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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8173016, member: 128351&quot;]This is of course very subjective. I always considered the coinage of the &quot;Gallic emperors&quot; under-appreciated from an artistic point of view. Maybe it&#039;s because it is so common and has been so awkwardly imitated. Let&#039;s take just an example, this Tetricus II antoninianus, minted in Cologne or somewhere else in Southern Gaul :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428019[/ATTACH] Obv.: C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES, draped and cuirassed radiate bust right</p><p>Rev.: SPES AVGG, Spes walking left holding flower</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse type is a schematic reinterpretation of an extremely common reverse used by many emperors since Claudius I. It obviously depicts a statue which was in Rome. On first and second century sestertii (the most detailed depictions) we can see that this statue of Spes was probably of archaic style, like the terracotta monumental Apollo of Veii of the late 6th c. BC that was discovered in the workshop of an Etruscan sculptor at Veii. On this 3rd c. AD Gallic die, the traditional image is stylized in a way that reminds us of the older Celtic coinage: nothing but curves, S, spirals, the only straight line being the neck of the goddess. The result is very elegant.</p><p><br /></p><p>NEXT : Spes[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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