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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1665228, member: 42773"]You know what strikes me about the pre-Tetrarchy portraiture is how uniform it is. There must have been an entire school of die engraving that was taken as seriously as other Roman arts, with master engravers, apprentices, and copious training. Perhaps the masters traveled to various mints to give instruction, perhaps pupils went to a particular school before they were sent out into the world of minting. It's unfortunate that the Romans didn't keep better records of all that, for the sake of numismatic posterity.</p><p><br /></p><p>How else would you get almost carbon-copy likenesses of Philip from even just the coins illustrated in this thread?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1665228, member: 42773"]You know what strikes me about the pre-Tetrarchy portraiture is how uniform it is. There must have been an entire school of die engraving that was taken as seriously as other Roman arts, with master engravers, apprentices, and copious training. Perhaps the masters traveled to various mints to give instruction, perhaps pupils went to a particular school before they were sent out into the world of minting. It's unfortunate that the Romans didn't keep better records of all that, for the sake of numismatic posterity. How else would you get almost carbon-copy likenesses of Philip from even just the coins illustrated in this thread?[/QUOTE]
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