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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3924762, member: 76194&quot;]Yes, Octavian on my coin looks as if the moneyers didn&#039;t yet know what a Octavian looked like, so they did a random youth face. You&#039;ll ses that throughout Roman History, when a guy first comes to power and the moneyers don&#039;t know what they look like they&#039;ll either modify a previous guy&#039;s face with generic features or leave the previous emperor&#039;s face , but the rest of the coin&#039;s style and everything else is as you&#039;d expect from an official coin of the emperor whose name appears on the legends, so we know it&#039;s not a barbarous imitation. You don&#039;t see that very often, so when you get one you can be sure you&#039;ve got one of the first coins of that guy to be struck. In my case there was no one previous on that coin with a face to modify, so the celators kinda winged it and created a random youth face.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my famous Maximinus Trax which was in all likelyhood adapted from an already carved die of Severus Alexander.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1034561[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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