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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7881346, member: 75937&quot;]That&#039;s a fascinating coin, [USER=90981]@Shea19[/USER], and that&#039;s clearly Caracalla&#039;s visage. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a coin of Faustina II that was engraved by someone who had no idea what she looked like. I imagine it happened like this ...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Hey, Nikolaos, Mithres says to engrave a coin for Emperor Antoninus&#039; daughter Faustina!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;What&#039;s she look like?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I dunno. Some Roman imperial lady. Make her look like an emperor&#039;s daughter.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;What&#039;s an emperor&#039;s daughter look like? I only know the local Lydian girls.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Well ... like Germanicus&#039; daughter Agrippina or Titus&#039; daughter Julia.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Okay ... I guess ... I&#039;ll get on it!&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Nikolaos sets to work on a blank die, modeling it after a coin of Claudius and Agrippina II from nearby Thyatira and a denarius of Julia Titi on hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359065[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359067[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And he comes up with this ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359068[/ATTACH] </p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina II, AD 147-175/6.</font></p><p><font size="3">Roman provincial Æ 17.1 mm, 3.04 g, 7 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">Lydia, Dioshieron, Magistrate L. Iouli. Mithres (Grammateus), AD 147- c. 149.</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: ΦAVCTЄINA CЄBACTH, bare-headed and draped bust right, hair in a top-knot and looped ponytail.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: ЄΠI MIΘPOV ΔIOCIЄPЄITΩN, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff.</font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: RPC IV.2, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/1236" rel="nofollow">1236</a> (temp); BMC 22.76, 12; SNG Cop 116; SNG Turkey 240-41; Waddington 4963.</font></p><p><font size="3">Notes: Double-die match to Paris specimen (<a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8516942w" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8516942w" rel="nofollow">BNF</a>) and <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/168241" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/168241" rel="nofollow">Ashmolean specimen</a>.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Eventually, coins with imperial portraits of Faustina II enter circulation in the backwater town of Dioshieron as they are spent by pilgrims coming to worship at the temple of Zeus and the mint workers learn what she looks like. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Hey, Nikolaos, boss wants you to make another coin for the emperor&#039;s daughter! And do it RIGHT this time, will you?&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Okay! I&#039;m on it&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Nikolaos sets to work and this time, the portrait looks more like her ...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/5390372-jpg.1088133/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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