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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 8291156, member: 83956&quot;]That’s a very generous response to a casual comment from me. But to expand on it, my observation is a bit banal. When I look at these imperial issues, upon the reverse I see a lithe, graceful, tall figure whose hand has just finished making a left-to-right sweep over that lyre. Yet on the obverse I see a corpulent, if not bloated, bust. The body types of obverse and reverse, to my eyes, do not match up. </p><p><br /></p><p>But in that second type you presented from CNG, the bust type is much more svelte and accords better with the figure on the reverse. I don’t know enough about the bust types to suggest that the more corpulent ones are later, but that stands to reason. Maybe the reverse die was engraved during the emperor’s leaner years and became a stable iconography even as the emperor himself changed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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