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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Noah Worke, post: 24877143, member: 115032&quot;]Same here. I&#039;ve considered making a post about it, but I just don&#039;t know enough about Byzantium to confidently do so. I think part of it has to do with some portraits facing the viewer head-on, which is a bit more difficult to do than a traditional side profile like on classical Roman coinage. The lines seem to be doing all the work on the portraits, it&#039;s either a flat surface or there&#039;s a line. This is opposed to classical Roman coinage, where there is a variance in the height of the devices (not sure if there&#039;s a numismatic term for that. This isn&#039;t true for every coin as I look at some examples and some coins definitely retain that classical Roman look, but by and large I would consider Byzantine coins to be less appealing to the eye than a classical Roman coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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