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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Multatuli, post: 2876074, member: 89266&quot;]Hi people!</p><p>It&#039;s just me, or does anyone else think this Britannicus portrait AE from Aegae very similar to the Brutus portrait on EID-MAR denarius??</p><p>This is an exaggerated consuption of bacon? [ATTACH=full]688367[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]688368[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">My coin</span></b>: AEOLIS, Aegae. Britannicus, son of Claudius and Messalina. Circa 43-55 AD.&nbsp; BΡITANNIKOC KAICAΡ, bare head right / AIΓAEΩN EΠI XAΛE-OY, Zeus standing left holding eagle and sceptre. Chaleos, magistrate. RPC I 2431; SNG Copenhagen -.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Other coin</b></span>: <u><b>THE COIN.</b></u></p><p><br /></p><p>Really, of course, there are at least 84 years separating these two coins, but I wonder if Brutus&#039; portrait could not have been used as a model for the creation of Britannicus portrait of this coin. Eid-Mar denarius&nbsp; was struck by a military travelling atelier in Macedonia, while the Britannicus coin was struck in Aegae, Greece, in a region in the Peloponnese.</p><p>Could the celator used a Brutus&#039; denarius to create an imaginary bust of Britannicus?</p><p>In ancient Numismatics, it&#039;s notorious the inspiration of some mintmasters in some older ancient coins to create new one, using copies of olds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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