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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 4562991, member: 75496&quot;]Nice portraits!&nbsp; I also like the realism of Hellenistic art.&nbsp; Here are two of my favorite examples, also from Seleucid coinage (drachms in this case):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129575[/ATTACH]</p><p>Demetrios I Soter (162-150 BC)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129576[/ATTACH]</p><p>Antiochus VII Euergetes (138-129 BC)</p><p><br /></p><p>And here are the coins at the feet of a small replica of a famous Hellenistic statue of Nike, the &quot;Winged Victory of Samothrace,&quot; which was sculpted circa 200-190 BC, just a few decades before these coins were struck.&nbsp;&nbsp; This beautiful work of art was recently restored (2013-14), and is displayed in the Louvre.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129617[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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