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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3251725, member: 74834&quot;]I didn&#039;t have time for this thread last week, but portraits, yes, that&#039;s top of the list for me. Here are some. </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin decorated my desk for twenty years before I even started collecting. A bronze drachm of Ptolemy IV, issued in Alexandria between 221 and 205 BC. A huge coin of 40 mm and 67 gr. The bearded portrait belongs to Zeus, the supreme Greek god.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]853384[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Agrippa, died 12 BC, but here honored by his grandson, the emperor Gaius Caligula, 37-41 AD. An as of 25 mm, weighing 14.5 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]853385[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Domna, a denarius I bought from CNG, but it is from the estate of coin seller Tom Cederlind, who had a great eye for great portraits. Rev. Luna, cloak billowing around her head, in biga drawn by horses on ground line, to the left, LVNA LVCIFERA [meaning Moon, the Light Bearer]. 18 mm, 2.85 gr.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]853386[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is Constantinus II as caesar, a coin issued under his father Constantine the Great in AD 320, in Siscia, province Illyria (now Croatia). Constantine as a boy, laureate, draped, and cuirassed looking left, holding Victory on globe and mappa. 18 mm, 2.31 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]853387[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>TWO great idealistic portraits on this bronze of Laodicea ad Mare, now Latakia in Syria. To the left, the emperor Domitian, to the right is the city protecting goddess, usually called Tyche. But I suppose you might call her Laodicea, too. 25 mm, 11.23 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]853388[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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