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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 3091585, member: 44357&quot;]Roman coins can be strikingly beautiful or not as refined, and of course, so can Greek. It just depends where you look.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take the Sulla&#039;s Dream denarii for an example. The reverse is extremely artistic, dynamic, and detailed:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]780214[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And this depiction of the Capitoline temple with an obverse of Jupiter/Zeus is definitely highly artistic despite also being minted in the Roman Republic when art wasn&#039;t as fine as it eventually became in the Empire:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]780218[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think any Greek engraver would have been proud to produce this portrait of Faustina Junior.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]780215[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve met some collectors who will only buy Greek coins because they think all Roman coins &quot;look the same&quot;. To this I say good riddance as it means there will be less competition for Roman coinage!</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I can&#039;t argue that Greek tetradrachms are some of the most aesthetic coins. Here&#039;s a tetradrachm depicting Perseus, the last King of Macedon, with a very realistic portrait:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]780216[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The often-repeated notion that Roman is artistically inferior to Greek is not universally fair. They each have wide ranges of quality and the historical context of each coin needs to be taken into account along with the art to fully appreciate the imagery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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