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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 7405999, member: 26302"]I agree. I was skeptical of it actually being Alexander at first, but upon looking at the entire corpus of the coins, they bear way too much similarity than would normally be expected from so many mints, unless they were intentionally copying a bust that was given to them. Now, if this was Alexander's intentionally stylized bust, (like Augustus), we will never know. But I agree its intended to be Alexander and is copying the official likeness he wanted portrayed. Herakles was portrayed more wildly, and like [USER=111387]@Herodotus[/USER] stated, more of a "meathead". His resemblance to a wildman was actually part of his mythos, overly muscular, overly testosterone laden. Remember his 10 (later 12) Labors was due to him going insane and killing his entire family. He was supposed to be semi-civilized.</p><p><br /></p><p>I LOVE the Commodus hercules types. I buy them whenever I can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 7405999, member: 26302"]I agree. I was skeptical of it actually being Alexander at first, but upon looking at the entire corpus of the coins, they bear way too much similarity than would normally be expected from so many mints, unless they were intentionally copying a bust that was given to them. Now, if this was Alexander's intentionally stylized bust, (like Augustus), we will never know. But I agree its intended to be Alexander and is copying the official likeness he wanted portrayed. Herakles was portrayed more wildly, and like [USER=111387]@Herodotus[/USER] stated, more of a "meathead". His resemblance to a wildman was actually part of his mythos, overly muscular, overly testosterone laden. Remember his 10 (later 12) Labors was due to him going insane and killing his entire family. He was supposed to be semi-civilized. I LOVE the Commodus hercules types. I buy them whenever I can.[/QUOTE]
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