FORVM`s Classical Numismatics Discussion Board
Numismatic and History Discussion Forums => Ancient Coin Forum => Topic started by: Tacitus on February 21, 2011, 05:43:13 pm
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How many emperors actually had the previous emperor's portait on the coins? (i.e. how many portraits got resused?)... I am not meaning commemoratives or posthumous issues...
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During civil wars I think this happened quite a bit. I have a few coins of Vespasian that look like Vitellius and one that looks like Vitellius with Otho's hair! I started a picture thread a few months ago, I'll try to dig it up.
EDIT: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=61370.0
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It happened in several third century AD reigns as well, sometimes with very slight modifications. For one, Trajan Decius's reused portraits of Philip I as his own early in his coinage.
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Early Postumus issues look remarkably like Gallienus.
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It's also very interesting to see the very first Traianus coins, how they resemble Nerva and how over time they get their distinctive Traianus look after a few iterations.