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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4074726, member: 19463&quot;]We might quibble on the exact number but I see 95% as about right as long as we allow for the differences made by various branch mint coins during reigns where there were multiple cities striking Imperial coins.&nbsp; If you learn those differences, even the rulers outside the stated span can be IDed in many cases. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have more &#039;friends&#039; whose faces I recognize from the distant past than I do of people living today.&nbsp; Some of them are more consistent than others due to their changing as they aged.&nbsp; Some have a few stranger portraits from their first years when the diecutters merged the appearances of the new and old emperors.&nbsp; Diocletian did introduce a more formal and less than photographic realism but many coins of that period are more distinct from the other rulers than they are realistic.&nbsp; Specialists who look at many thousands of coins see things that the rest of us may not see.&nbsp; Somewhere in the past of Coin Talk is a thread where we posted portraits and asked for guesses as to who it was.&nbsp; Some were easier than others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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