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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6184426, member: 110504&quot;]That&#039;s a weird one.&nbsp; I&#039;m totally out of my league where provincials are concerned, this period emphatically included.&nbsp; But in your example, there&#039;s this controlling contrast between the beard length (evoking Antoninus Pius, as per your initial guess), and the hair texture (no less emphatically evoking later Antonines --Marcus, Lucius Verus, or Commodus).</p><p>...Got to wonder whether the provincial mint was a factor here.&nbsp; As people here have talked about, far more eloquently than I ever could (memorably --just not enough so to cite it-- where issues of Vespasian, and later Flavians are concerned), there can be a time lag, while the provincial mints catch up with what the new emperor looked like.</p><p>Except, in terms of the ostensible chronology (and on the basis of the above premise), your example seems to be going in the wrong direction!</p><p>As in, how do you get a provincial issue, of this mileu, where the hair is later Antonine, and the beard --the easiest part of the obverse design to alter-- is short enough to evoke Antoninus Pius?</p><p>...Sorry; this was reducible to thinking in real time.&nbsp; As such, the best you&#039;re likely to get from here.</p><p>Hoping someone who actually knows what they&#039;re talking about can weigh in on this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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