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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 6252232, member: 44357&quot;]Thanks for the shout-out! Here are a few of mine which might fit the title, although the notion of a masterpiece is definitely subjective.</p><p><br /></p><p>Front and 3/4ths-facing portraiture is exceptionally difficult to execute well as the human eye is so tuned to what faces look like, treating anything less than perfection as &quot;uncanny valley&quot;. This coin, Ex. Kunstfreund and Ex. Pozzi, is arguably one of the most carefully executed front-facing portraits by the artist Theodotus who engraved the famous unique signed tetradrachm in the British Museum:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247425[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I had the privilege to hold the signed coin in the British Museum, taking a photo which doesn&#039;t do the coin justice:[ATTACH=full]1247430[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I know I just posted it a few days ago but my new Pantikapaion stater is a stark, novel artistic depiction:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247431[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another even-better coin from one of my British Museum visits, the famous 3/4ths facing Pantikapaion. The closest example sold in the Prospero collection for $3M+:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247432[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll also add in this Rhegium tetradrachm: the reverse is the artistically novel side, showing the lion from the top down, but the obverse is also particularly refined:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247433[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Additionally, this Syracuse tetradrachm is a favorite piece of classical art in my eyes, with an incredible rider, veins in the horse belly, fully depicted bridals, and a beautiful face on the reverse with lengthy eyelashes:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247434[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Without being to Greek-biased, here&#039;s an aureus of Hadrian with a nice but not-perfect portrait but a very interesting reverse, conveying an immense amount of information about the Nile and Egypt:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247437[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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