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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 6071622, member: 44316"]Some historians say that all the tetrarchs look alike. In some stylistic sense that is so, but in detail it is not. I happen to like coins of Constantius:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Constantiusfolles.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Constantiusfolles.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Constantiusfolles.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When you have put this much study into the coins of that time period:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/extra.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/extra.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/extra.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>then you can usually tell the emperors apart by their portraits.</p><p>Constantius was the only one with a curly beard (and then, not on western-mint coins where they had reason to know what he looked like):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244760[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius as Caesar</p><p><b>Serdica</b></p><p>29 mm. 9.30 grams.</p><p>FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate head</p><p>B in right field</p><p>•SM•SD in exergue</p><p><i>RIC</i> Serdica 4a "c. 303-304-5"[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 6071622, member: 44316"]Some historians say that all the tetrarchs look alike. In some stylistic sense that is so, but in detail it is not. I happen to like coins of Constantius: [URL]http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/Constantiusfolles.html[/URL] When you have put this much study into the coins of that time period: [URL]http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/extra.html[/URL] then you can usually tell the emperors apart by their portraits. Constantius was the only one with a curly beard (and then, not on western-mint coins where they had reason to know what he looked like): [ATTACH=full]1244760[/ATTACH] Constantius as Caesar [B]Serdica[/B] 29 mm. 9.30 grams. FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate head B in right field •SM•SD in exergue [I]RIC[/I] Serdica 4a "c. 303-304-5"[/QUOTE]
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