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Offline Tacitus

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Reusing the Portraits
« on: February 21, 2011, 05:43:13 pm »
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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Re: Reusing the Portraits
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2011, 05:45:37 pm »
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.

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Re: Reusing the Portraits
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2011, 12:22:13 pm »
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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Re: Reusing the Portraits
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2011, 03:50:21 pm »
Early Postumus issues look remarkably like Gallienus.
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Re: Reusing the Portraits
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2011, 05:09:42 pm »
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.

 

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