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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7831186, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks to both of you (and to everyone else who&#039;s commented). I did want to mention that choosing a side-facing Honorius to pair with my front-facing Arcadius was a deliberate decision. I didn&#039;t want the two coins to look too much alike, so although front-facing Honorius solidi do exist, I specifically wanted a side-facing one.&nbsp; It&#039;s also a lot easier to find a good-looking side portrait than front portrait anyway -- it took a while to find a front-facing Arcadius that looked attractive and didn&#039;t have his nose smushed all over his face. (Just as it&#039;s not so easy to find a front-facing Helios from Rhodes that isn&#039;t ugly as sin! I suspect that the art of creating an attractive front-facing or even three-quarters facing portrait had not yet been perfected. Sometimes I see even modern front-facing coins that look pretty bad.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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