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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 811121, member: 19409&quot;]I have a few that I think are worthy of sharing here.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>First of all, I have a nice, serious looking portrait of Maximinus Thrax on this denarius:</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/19819/Maximinus_standing.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>His portraits can often come off rather cartoonish due largely to how they portray is large chin, as shown in this less impressive example from my collection:</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/19819/Maximinus_Salus.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s good portrait of another 3rd century soldier emperor, Trajan Decius:</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/19819/Decius_Adventus.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve always liked this portrait of Philip the Arab on this sestertius. It definitely shows more character and emotion than most of the coins I see of him, in my opinion:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/19819/Philip_Sestertius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Finally, if no one minds a provincial, I really like the portrait on this AE30 of Caracalla from Serdica:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/19819/normal_57227d1252101055-caracalla-serdica.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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