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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2612547, member: 44316&quot;]Here is a web site which discusses early and late portraits of Maximinus Thrax:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/Maximinus/Maximinus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/Maximinus/Maximinus.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/Maximinus/Maximinus.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As [USER=76194]@Sallent[/USER] notes, his early portraits resemble Severus Alexander.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]571823[/ATTACH] </p><p>Maximinus Thrax</p><p>[ATTACH=full]571824[/ATTACH] </p><p>Severus Alexander.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maximinus I / VICTORIA AVG </p><p>Severus Alexander / SPES PVBLICA</p><p><br /></p><p>The legends, IMP &lt;name&gt; PIVS AVG, are the same except for the name, the hair is cut similarly, and the chin and beard are very similar. The nose is different, with the nose of Maximinus larger and humped and the nose of Alexander straight. The curvature at the top of the nose of Maximinus disappears in the second style and returns as a larger curve in the third.</p><p><br /></p><p>Scholars think the third style is the most accurate portrait:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]571825[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest portrait of Maximinus looks more like Severus Alexander than it does the later portrait.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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