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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8565583, member: 26430"]That's interesting, I'd temporarily forgotten about his Provincial portraits. Seeing how briefly he was in power (c. 3 months), I think there's a pretty good chance the engravers in the provinces had very little idea what he looked like. A lot of times, early in a reign, they would have little choice but to make the new ruler look a lot like the old. In this case, I would say they made him look a bit like a young de-individualized Nero.</p><p><br /></p><p>Galba was in between Nero and Otho, but interestingly, despite a fairly short reign, there are pretty accurate Provincials of him at some mints. Alexandria less so than in Syria, but even on the Alexandrian you can tell it's him.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know if you can ever say the same about Provincial Otho's.</p><p>None of them look very distinctively Otho-y:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=otho+RPC&category=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=otho+RPC&category=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=otho+RPC&category=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, hey, there's the coin you just shared, [USER=24754]@Cherd[/USER] (TRISKELES AUCTIONS, SALE 28, LOT 160): <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6073208" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6073208" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6073208</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1511029[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8565583, member: 26430"]That's interesting, I'd temporarily forgotten about his Provincial portraits. Seeing how briefly he was in power (c. 3 months), I think there's a pretty good chance the engravers in the provinces had very little idea what he looked like. A lot of times, early in a reign, they would have little choice but to make the new ruler look a lot like the old. In this case, I would say they made him look a bit like a young de-individualized Nero. Galba was in between Nero and Otho, but interestingly, despite a fairly short reign, there are pretty accurate Provincials of him at some mints. Alexandria less so than in Syria, but even on the Alexandrian you can tell it's him. I don't know if you can ever say the same about Provincial Otho's. None of them look very distinctively Otho-y: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=otho+RPC&category=1[/URL] Oh, hey, there's the coin you just shared, [USER=24754]@Cherd[/USER] (TRISKELES AUCTIONS, SALE 28, LOT 160): [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6073208[/URL] [ATTACH=full]1511029[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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