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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2783729, member: 76194&quot;]Senators, wealthy people, quaestors (mint officials) did the minting. Who did the minting depended on the situation, but as long as you had approval from the Senate to strike coins for that year, you could do so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who or what appears on RR coinage depends on the coiner.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes it was the faces of the Gods and Goddesses</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]644700[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]644701[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]644703[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes mythical creatures, and sometimes even real people (but after they had died), etc. Like this one of Philip V of Macedon.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]644706[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ultimately, the coiner could depict any theme he wanted, as long as he never depicted the image of a living human being.</p><p><br /></p><p>Julius Caesar broke that tradition, and the rest is history.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]644707[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julius Caesar lifetime portrait denarius[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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