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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 5373493, member: 98035&quot;]The coin on the right was minted in Rome after Vitellius arrived in the city and consolidated his position. The coin on the left IIRC was minted in Hispania or Gaul, where he never set foot during his tenure as Augustus. The leading theory is that mints used busts of the emperor to model the obverse portrait, and it is quite possible that the one used for the left coin was a decade or two old. The statue in the middle is Vitellius, but we have no way of knowing whether that statue was made while he was Augustus in 69, or a decade or two earlier, as it was pretty common practice for the new emperor to destroy the image of the old one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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