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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 24481894, member: 87809"]The oldest coin with the head of a living Roman is an Aureus of Titus Quinctius Flaminius (consul 198 BC), struck in 196 BC (RRC 548/1a):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1954-1009-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1954-1009-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1954-1009-1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As for Julius Caesar, the type Bithynia, Nicaea, BMC Nicea 8, RPC I 2026, Proconsul C. Vibius Pansa was the first anywhere to feature the portrait of Julius Caesar. C. Vibius Pansa was part of the Caesarian faction at Rome and probably owed his proconsulship to his patron.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 24481894, member: 87809"]The oldest coin with the head of a living Roman is an Aureus of Titus Quinctius Flaminius (consul 198 BC), struck in 196 BC (RRC 548/1a): [URL]https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1954-1009-1[/URL] As for Julius Caesar, the type Bithynia, Nicaea, BMC Nicea 8, RPC I 2026, Proconsul C. Vibius Pansa was the first anywhere to feature the portrait of Julius Caesar. C. Vibius Pansa was part of the Caesarian faction at Rome and probably owed his proconsulship to his patron.[/QUOTE]
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