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Mazaios Obol, Artaxerxes III / Lion attacking bull CILICIA. Tarsos. Mazaios (Satrap of Cilicia, 361/0-334 BC). Obol. 0.7 g., 12 mm.
O: Artaxerxes III (in the guise of Baaltars) seated right on throne with back terminating in head of swan, holding lotus flower and lotus-tipped sceptre.
R: Lion attacking bull right.
- Ziegler -; Casabonne Series 6; SNG BN 426-8 (Myriandros); SNG Levante 183 (Myriandros).

The appearance of Baaltars on this issue is significantly different from the relatively standard depiction of the deity on other coins of Tarsos. While the diety is typically shown nude to his waist, here the figure is fully clothed with attire that closely resembles that on the figure that appears on the royal Persian coinage struck at Sardes. More importanly, though, is the headdress on the figure. Baaltars typically wears a laurel wreath or no headdress, while this portrait shows the figure wearing an elaborate headdress. In a recent article, Frank Kovacs analysed the type, and argues that this figure is actually the Great King Araxeres III Ochos, in the guise of Baaltars, and the headdress is the combined crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, thus his appearance here is as pharaoh of Egypt (cf. F. Kovacs, "Two Persian Pharaonic Potraits" in JNG L [2000]; see also M. Thompson, in MN XII [1968], pp. 11–2, who notes the figure wearing a "high crown of Egyptian type"). This is plausible, as Araxerxes was the first pharaoh of the Thirty-First Dynasty of Egypt, and the date of his rule there, 343-338 BC, comports well with this issue under Mazaios.

O. Casabonne, while acknowledging that the figure here may represent a synthesis of Baaltars and the Great King, disagrees with the identification of the headdress as the Egyptian crown. Instead, he views the headdress as being a Phrigian style cap that is often depicted in contemporary art as being worn by warriors (cf. Casabonne, p. 121, fig. 8), but is here shown with the cheek guards in a raised position.

Nonetheless, it is doubless that the figure here is a synthesized portrait of Baaltars and the Persian Great King. The fractional silver of this issue, interestingly, may be most instructive, as the headdress on the figure is shown wearing a crown that is identical to that on the figure of the royal Achaemenid coinage and his robes have interlocking circles reminiscent of the darics of Carradice Type IV Late (cf. M. Thompson, op. cit. , p. 12).
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Portraits of Trajan The potraits of Trajan according to Woytek.
A. 99-105
B. 105-107
C. 107-109
D. 109-117

Portrait A - Big, almost square head on broad neck. Truncation near straight, sometimes with two or three slight indentations.

Portrait B, C and D - All show Trajan with smaller, flatter head of oval shape, but differ in their bust truncation.

Potrait B and D - Downward extension of truncation at the front, as though showing part of emperor's chest. In D, however, there is less of an indentation separating this frontal extension from the back of the truncation. In type D, one of the emperor's wreath ties often turns inward and overlaps with the back of the neck, wheras in type B both wreath ties usually curve away from the neck.

Portrait C has normal truncation without the frontal extension, usually with two slight indentations, as in type A but combined with the new smaller, oval head of the emperor.

Because of the similarity of type A to type C and of type B to type D, previous researchers have often confused them, but as Woytek demonstrates, there can be no doubt about their definition and sequence.

Sources: Woytek's Die Reichsprägung Des Kaisers Traianus and Curtis Clay's review of aforementioned book.

The picture is my own.
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Roman, Galba's "scareface"Master's portrait of the emperor Galba on sestertius.

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Trajan RIC 167; Woytek 212fTrajan 98-117 AD. AR Denarius. Rome Mint. ca 106-107 AD. (3.30g, 19mm) Obv: IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Annona standing left, holding corn ears and cornucopia; modius to left, prow toright.
Woytek 212f; RIC 167; RSC 467d

Ex: G&N

My favorite bust and potrait type of Trajan.
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