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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 6471581, member: 26302"]One can never be positive its the great sphinx, but its definitely the Egyptian one, and not similar at all to all others shown on coins. Additionally, even in antiquity the Great Sphinx was a famous landmark, greatly copied within Egypt. Myself, I bought my coin for the reverse and am fairly comfortable its depicting the Great Sphinx. Why would an emperor wish to celebrate a non-Great Sphinx? He is the emperor, he only associates with the best and most famous.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also like mine for the resemblance. anyone else notice the face on the sphinx looks a lot like Domitian on it? I wonder if just same engraver carves faces like that, or if it was intentional. It sure does not look like the real spinx, it has a more western face and less eastern face that the real one has to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 6471581, member: 26302"]One can never be positive its the great sphinx, but its definitely the Egyptian one, and not similar at all to all others shown on coins. Additionally, even in antiquity the Great Sphinx was a famous landmark, greatly copied within Egypt. Myself, I bought my coin for the reverse and am fairly comfortable its depicting the Great Sphinx. Why would an emperor wish to celebrate a non-Great Sphinx? He is the emperor, he only associates with the best and most famous. I also like mine for the resemblance. anyone else notice the face on the sphinx looks a lot like Domitian on it? I wonder if just same engraver carves faces like that, or if it was intentional. It sure does not look like the real spinx, it has a more western face and less eastern face that the real one has to me.[/QUOTE]
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