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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Multatuli, post: 2887985, member: 89266&quot;]Scipio Africanus, really? </p><p><br /></p><p>Considering that this man was one of the most important generals in Ancient Rome, like a superstar, that was elect to the consulship two times after his glory on the 2nd Punic War, why not? His deeds are remembered to these days, when the Italian anthem is sung in any civic occasion: &quot;l&#039;Italia s&#039;è desta, dell&#039;elmo di Scipio s&#039;è cinta la testa&quot; (Inno di Mameli). But, although the bust portrayed in the coin is apparently of the style of a Roman citizen, it looks nothing like our hero, who, as you can see, was apparently bald...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]693479[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]693480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]693481[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]693482[/ATTACH]</p><p>But of course, it’s not impossible, although we numismatists tend to see what we would really like to see. It would not have been a crime if his portrait had been used in a provincial coinage as a form of Roman propaganda, without entering into the merit of self-promotion, which would put him in the delicate role that Caesar had passed some 160 years later with risks to Republican ideals. It looks like more to me with this not much less famous guy:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]693484[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But, anyway, I loved all these coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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