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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4502495, member: 80783"]Great observation! Mine is from a different reverse die, but the obverse portraits seem to be too similar to be from different dies. If so, could it be that there is a little tooling done on the hair/laurel wreath?</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, this seems that the celator managed to create a portrait of the finest style to be found on bronze coins of this ruler.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4502495, member: 80783"]Great observation! Mine is from a different reverse die, but the obverse portraits seem to be too similar to be from different dies. If so, could it be that there is a little tooling done on the hair/laurel wreath? In any case, this seems that the celator managed to create a portrait of the finest style to be found on bronze coins of this ruler.[/QUOTE]
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