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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7395364, member: 110350&quot;]Great coins so far! [USER=72790]@kevin McGonigal[/USER], I don&#039;t think you&#039;re going to find too many such coins issued during the Roman Republic, since there was a customary prohibition against portraying living people on coins, before Julius Caesar famously breached it, followed (ironically) by Brutus.&nbsp; Although there is one coin portraying the Macedonian king Perseus (then long-deceased) on the reverse with his two sons, and another supposedly showing Marius and his son, although they aren&#039;t expressly identified, presumably to preserve plausible deniability.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few Imperial and Provincial coins that qualify:</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus and his grandsons Gaius and Lucius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286711[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus and his son-in-law Agrippa, although of course that&#039;s not what Agrippa was most famous for.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286709[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius I and his mother Antonia</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286712[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Domitian and his wife Domitia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286713[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III and his wife Tranquillina.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286714[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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