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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8242742, member: 26430&quot;]That&#039;s a great Septimius and a great &quot;next&quot; theme! Though we&#039;ve just seen a Gallia (and I included her thumbnail above as an aside ), I can&#039;t pass the opportunity to share the most &quot;hauntingly beautiful&quot; single die I&#039;m aware of (well, in my collection!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Someday I will share my full opinion (I have so many thoughts on this one), but I speculate this obv die was the &quot;master&quot; or first die from which the others of the issue were modeled, and very possibly based on an actual living model (there was also a more idealized/abstract series of dies, many of which are quite beautiful without aiming for realism, some may even feel those ones are a higher artistic achievement):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451064[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(Excepting the off-center Carnyx, <a href="https://www.shannaschmidt.com/roman-repuclic/roman-republic-l-hostilius-saserna-rome-c-48-bc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.shannaschmidt.com/roman-repuclic/roman-republic-l-hostilius-saserna-rome-c-48-bc" rel="nofollow">Shanna Schmidt currently has one</a> that&#039;s among the most attractive strikes of Gallia with this die for anyone interested. There are a few other nice ones in the Schaefer binders, but I don&#039;t think a proper die study has been published.)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>NEXT: Yet more &quot;hauntingly beautiful&quot;!</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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