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<p>[QUOTE="Caesar_Augustus, post: 3255668, member: 87659"]Here's a modest example of a Constantius follis from Antioch, with beard curls. It almost seems to me that he forgot to comb his beard when they took his portrait to send it out east so they can get the coins done there. Then again, the eastern mints have a very uniform portrait accross the tetrarchs with little variation. So, maybe the variation was added by the mint workers? Why are there few (if any) curled beard portraits in the west where Constantius was actually governing? Did Constantius even have beard curls, or did he always comb it into the nice straight lines we see on some coins? </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://badlight.github.io/josephscoins/images/constantiusi5/constantiusi5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Caesar_Augustus, post: 3255668, member: 87659"]Here's a modest example of a Constantius follis from Antioch, with beard curls. It almost seems to me that he forgot to comb his beard when they took his portrait to send it out east so they can get the coins done there. Then again, the eastern mints have a very uniform portrait accross the tetrarchs with little variation. So, maybe the variation was added by the mint workers? Why are there few (if any) curled beard portraits in the west where Constantius was actually governing? Did Constantius even have beard curls, or did he always comb it into the nice straight lines we see on some coins? [IMG]https://badlight.github.io/josephscoins/images/constantiusi5/constantiusi5.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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