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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numisnewbiest, post: 5373436, member: 99613&quot;][ATTACH=full]1229420[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>First, these are not my coins - I&#039;m only using them for reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>The portrait bust of Vitellius in the center photo is well known and accepted as being accurate. However, almost every Vitellius coin I&#039;ve ever seen has the obverse portrait on the right, which looks nothing like his portrait bust and can&#039;t be the same person portrayed in the sculpture - no resemblence at all, not even close. The coin on the left, by contrast, looks almost exactly like the portrait bust, with the same proportions, head shape, face, etc, and so must be the same person as the one depicted in the sculpture - in other words, the real Vitellius. Even if the coin on the left were disregarded, the portrait bust and the coin on the right are vastly different.</p><p><br /></p><p>My question, then: whose portrait is on so many Vitellius coins (such as on the coin on the right), and how could someone who looked so unlike Vitellius have been put on so many of his coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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