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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numisnewbiest, post: 5373712, member: 99613&quot;]I&#039;m going to go with the coin on the right being the real portrait of Vitellius, then, if it was minted after he had already been in Rome for a while. You can&#039;t beat a living breathing reference. If the die engravers in Spain had never seen Vitellius, all they had to go by was whatever bust or busts they were told were him. I don&#039;t think age explains the difference in these two specific coins...age can only change someone so much, but age doesn&#039;t change a head from a tall square one to a short round one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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