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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3526752, member: 99456"]Thanks [USER=37707]@iamtiberius[/USER] your coins illustrate the ambiguity that I couldn't resolve - I tend to think of Lucius Verus as looking a bit more weathered and having a longer face and/or longer less well groomed beard than Marcus Aurelius...this CNG coin with both on the same coin illustrates (Lucius left, Marcus right):</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1356188" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1356188" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH=full]937283[/ATTACH]</a></p><p>But all die makers didn't necessarily share my thoughts on how to correctly represent these emperors <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, and given your 8 portraits, I would not have grouped correctly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3526752, member: 99456"]Thanks [USER=37707]@iamtiberius[/USER] your coins illustrate the ambiguity that I couldn't resolve - I tend to think of Lucius Verus as looking a bit more weathered and having a longer face and/or longer less well groomed beard than Marcus Aurelius...this CNG coin with both on the same coin illustrates (Lucius left, Marcus right): [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1356188'][ATTACH=full]937283[/ATTACH][/URL] But all die makers didn't necessarily share my thoughts on how to correctly represent these emperors :), and given your 8 portraits, I would not have grouped correctly.[/QUOTE]
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