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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1665311, member: 42773&quot;]Thanks Guy! I guess I&#039;m only lamenting the lack of evidence (other than coinage of course) for the Roman die-cutting school. I realize that portraiture underwent many permutations depending on the availability of images. As long as we&#039;re in a thread about Philip, I&#039;ll post a coin minted after his son, Philip II. The portrait is remarkably similar to the busts of Gordian III, who was also barely a teenager when he assumed the role of Augustus. Perhaps the celators felt Philip II looked enough like Gordian III to warrant recycling the same portrait and shortening the nose a bit...</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s18.postimage.org/wfxjyumg9/ses5a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But even when the portraiture became generic in the fourth century, there were very distinct and codified styles, pointing to an artistic culture of die-engraving that we have little information about. If you look at any of the barbarous issues, you&nbsp; can see for a fact that the engravers of those dies were completely unschooled in Roman aesthetics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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