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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3424694, member: 56859"]So many charming portraits in this thread! [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER], I see why you were attracted to that Sabina. [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER], not seeing the rest of that coin I would have guessed it was some provincial or imitative. Lucilla looks very "eastern" on that coin. [USER=36818]@benhur767[/USER], all of yours are wonderful but that Domna is really special. She looks atypically sweet <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], any Imperial portrait of Agrippina I is a coup and that bronze Herennia Etruscilla is remarkably veristic/modern. She looks like someone you might meet on the street today! [USER=100777]@octavius[/USER] and [USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER] ... spectacular examples, as usual <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have that many women and haven't paid as much attention to portraits as to reverses, but here's a portrait I find appealing:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lucillapudicitiadenariusreshoot-rt-jpg.725889/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Lucilla</b></p><p>Empress CE 163-169, wife of Lucius Verus</p><p>AR denarius, 19 mm, 3.25 gm</p><p>Obv: LVCILLA AVGVSTA; draped bust right</p><p>Rev: PVDICITIA; Pudicitia, veiled, standing left, with right hand preparing to draw a veil across her face (or had she just drawn the veil off her face?), left hand at side</p><p>Ref: RIC III 780</p><p><br /></p><p>She's a dead ringer (pardon the pun) for a particular type of china-head doll. My grandmother had one, although not the doll head pictured below:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tll-lucilla-jennylind-jpg.726009/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3424694, member: 56859"]So many charming portraits in this thread! [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER], I see why you were attracted to that Sabina. [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER], not seeing the rest of that coin I would have guessed it was some provincial or imitative. Lucilla looks very "eastern" on that coin. [USER=36818]@benhur767[/USER], all of yours are wonderful but that Domna is really special. She looks atypically sweet :). [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], any Imperial portrait of Agrippina I is a coup and that bronze Herennia Etruscilla is remarkably veristic/modern. She looks like someone you might meet on the street today! [USER=100777]@octavius[/USER] and [USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER] ... spectacular examples, as usual :D. I don't have that many women and haven't paid as much attention to portraits as to reverses, but here's a portrait I find appealing: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lucillapudicitiadenariusreshoot-rt-jpg.725889/[/IMG] [B]Lucilla[/B] Empress CE 163-169, wife of Lucius Verus AR denarius, 19 mm, 3.25 gm Obv: LVCILLA AVGVSTA; draped bust right Rev: PVDICITIA; Pudicitia, veiled, standing left, with right hand preparing to draw a veil across her face (or had she just drawn the veil off her face?), left hand at side Ref: RIC III 780 She's a dead ringer (pardon the pun) for a particular type of china-head doll. My grandmother had one, although not the doll head pictured below: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tll-lucilla-jennylind-jpg.726009/[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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