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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2765084, member: 82549&quot;]I find the portrait on the OP coin interesting. It looks very different from any other Tacitus I&#039;ve seen. My first thought was that the celator didn&#039;t know what Tacitus looked like and so, used a portrait of the preceding emperor. But Tacitus followed Aurelian, and there&#039;s clearly no resemblance, so I wonder who they used as a model.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here&#039;s my Tacitus:</p><p><img src="http://feltemp.com/Images/Warriors/Tacitus.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Billon Antoninianus</p><p>Ticinum mint</p><p>Obv: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG</p><p>Rev: CONSERVATOR MILITVM - Emperor, standing on left, with helmet in military dress, receiving globe from Jupiter, on right, ;leaning on scepter</p><p>P in exergue</p><p>RIC 134</p><p>22mm, 4.4g.</p><p><br /></p><p>and my Florian:</p><p><img src="http://feltemp.com/Images/Warriors/Florian.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Billon Antoninianus</p><p>Rome mint</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; IMP C FLORIANVS AVG</p><p>Rev: SALVS AVG - Salus, standing left, holding scepter and feeding snake rising up from altar</p><p>XXIΔ in exergue</p><p>RIC 40</p><p>23mm, 3.7g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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