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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4983917, member: 19463"]<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/glosshead.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/glosshead.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/glosshead.html</a></p><p>In 1998 I posted the above page on the subject of portrait types. If there is anything new to you there, feel free to look. Copying the old code to this reply destroys the formatting so I would suggest ignoring what is below and visiting the page for these and a couple doze other terms every new collector should know.</p><p>Hadrian dupondius <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/ghhrad.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <b>Radiate Head Right</b></p><p>In the middle of the first century AD the Romans began to use a crown of spikes on the portrait on the dupondius to help distinguish it from the as. On dupondii the crown was only used on portraits of the Augusti and never by Caesars or Augustae (Imperial women).</p><p>Postumus antoninianus <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/ghburad.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <b>Radiate Draped Bust Right</b></p><p>Later, the same radiant crown was used to distinguish the antoninianus (double denarius), the double aureus and the double sestertius. By the third century AD, style required most portraits to be busts rather than heads so this is the most common form found on antoniniani. Unlike the dupondii, antoniniani of Caesars show the crown.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4983917, member: 19463"][URL]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/glosshead.html[/URL] In 1998 I posted the above page on the subject of portrait types. If there is anything new to you there, feel free to look. Copying the old code to this reply destroys the formatting so I would suggest ignoring what is below and visiting the page for these and a couple doze other terms every new collector should know. Hadrian dupondius [IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/ghhrad.jpg[/IMG] [B]Radiate Head Right[/B] In the middle of the first century AD the Romans began to use a crown of spikes on the portrait on the dupondius to help distinguish it from the as. On dupondii the crown was only used on portraits of the Augusti and never by Caesars or Augustae (Imperial women). Postumus antoninianus [IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/ghburad.jpg[/IMG] [B]Radiate Draped Bust Right[/B] Later, the same radiant crown was used to distinguish the antoninianus (double denarius), the double aureus and the double sestertius. By the third century AD, style required most portraits to be busts rather than heads so this is the most common form found on antoniniani. Unlike the dupondii, antoniniani of Caesars show the crown.[/QUOTE]
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