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Offline Gert

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Tetrarchic seal of the day
« on: January 15, 2010, 02:32:21 pm »
How about this beauty:

Roman imperial lead conical seal. 1st tetrarchy, Diocletian and Maximian augusti and Galerius and Constantius caesares, AD 293-305
The two augusti face to face, the two caesares face to face below, all draped and wearing radiate crowns
16x20mm; 6.10g; Leukel N17-N23; Extremely fine

On this seal, the portraits are exquisite to my eye, even though they are only 4mm, note in particular the portrait of Diocletian at the top left.
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Re: Tetrarchic seal of the day
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2010, 09:39:49 pm »
Yes, that is definitely a cool find.  I have not seen many of these for sure.  The portrait of Diocletian is sharp and very attractive.  Thanks for sharing it with us!

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Re: Tetrarchic seal of the day
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2010, 09:27:41 pm »
I don't think we will be getting daily examples on this thread.  Very nice!
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