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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4713754, member: 19463"]Specialists care about chair legs but I wish my lowly examples had better portraits. My first has quite a forehead.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1156018[/ATTACH] </p><p>Next is the pinched mouth.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1156019[/ATTACH] </p><p>Of my coins, the fourree has the finest portrait but it may look a bit too much like Augustus to be considered a true representation of Tiberius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1156020[/ATTACH] </p><p>Of course the Indian copy abandoned photo realism in favor of trying to capture the true (lack of) personality of the man. The obverse legend suggests the die cutter only had one coin to copy and did not know what was lost (TI CAES) at the start. He did, however, take care to represent the down-arrow chair legs.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1156021[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4713754, member: 19463"]Specialists care about chair legs but I wish my lowly examples had better portraits. My first has quite a forehead. [ATTACH=full]1156018[/ATTACH] Next is the pinched mouth. [ATTACH=full]1156019[/ATTACH] Of my coins, the fourree has the finest portrait but it may look a bit too much like Augustus to be considered a true representation of Tiberius. [ATTACH=full]1156020[/ATTACH] Of course the Indian copy abandoned photo realism in favor of trying to capture the true (lack of) personality of the man. The obverse legend suggests the die cutter only had one coin to copy and did not know what was lost (TI CAES) at the start. He did, however, take care to represent the down-arrow chair legs. [ATTACH=full]1156021[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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