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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8000882, member: 98035&quot;]I don&#039;t think I could choose just one Caracalla, although this one is still my favorite portrait on any ancient I own, and I have yet to see another one which captures his wrathful character as well as the deeply furrowed brow and wrinkled nose of this one. I still like to entertain the notion that this may have been specially prepared as a presentation piece for the emperor himself or one of his inner circle.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388124[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And the rest</p><p><br /></p><p>As Caesar</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388127[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As Augustus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388130[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AE &quot;As&quot; of Pisidia</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388128[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>An unofficial denarius combining a ca. 211 obverse with the reverse of his late wife</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388125[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninianus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388126[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A sestertius - I&#039;m reasonably certain that this is genuine, but also that it has been significantly modified - certainly heavily smoothed and re-patinated</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388129[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A relatively scarce imperial As, an irrelevant denomination this late in the Imperial era</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388132[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And finally a tetradrachm from Tyre, showing the Murex shell from which could be extracted approximately one drop of the coveted Tyrian Purple dye</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388131[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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