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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8101040, member: 19463&quot;]Is it my imagination or do the two portraits resemble each other?&nbsp; At Rome, the earliest GIII portraits seem to resemble Balbinus but Alexandria (never having seen the boy) may have considered him as looking like his grandfather.&nbsp; I wish there were records of when the word about the various places learned about changes needed due to the start of a reign or a death. How long after Gordian I died did Rome hear the news? I do wonder about the considerations that led a mint to use a specific portrait for a specific person. We can never know what these &#039;very short term&#039; people really looked like.&nbsp; For those in Rome, I would expect the Rome mint versions to be close.&nbsp; What contributed to the Alexandria version, I do not know. </p><p>Gordian III as Caesar, Rome mint sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1408674[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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