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is this coin a portrait of King Juba or Caesar Augustus
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the questioner: [IMG]http://picturestack.com/874/333/3XUPicture6Joi.png[/IMG] "being the type of a silver coin which bears the Roman inscription " Juba Rex." Still, an anonymous archaeologist, (Steinbuchel, ) suggests, that this effigy, with its peculiar African headdress, might represent an African Jupiter, rather than a king, since his features are somewhat ideal and the scepter on the shoulder of the bust is an attribution of Jupiter, or of Juno, exceptionally given to kings." Indigenous Races of the Earth; or new chapters of ethnological inquiry ... By J. C. Nott pg 95 [/qb][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]^^^ what god looks like that? [/QUOTE]yes, are we to believe bearded man with an African looking headdress looks like Jupiter solely due to a scepter of some kind? Ask somebody anonymous about it [/qb][/QUOTE]anonymous writer was Steinbuchel [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0hb4CH77Wp8/TfBfLskJNoI/AAAAAAAAeAs/b3CXQzdK3SA/s1600/zeus.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]You have a good similarity here Still the problem I have is here has to be a precedent of a head, not a figure a head, of a god and the name of an emperor on the same side of the coin You have 1,500 year of Roman history to find a case of this [/qb][/QUOTE]another example Gold stater of Vercingetorix [IMG]https://travelfranceonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vercingetorix_stater_CdM.jpg[/IMG] this is actually a portrait of Apollo not Vercingetorix Vercingetorix was a Gaul and therefore should have a beard [/qb][/QUOTE]where is your primary source evidence all Gaul men had beards? [/qb][/QUOTE][IMG]http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/usercontent/images/article_images/CAESAR5_lg.jpg[/IMG] Julius Caesar triumph coin depicting a captured Gaul with beard and Venus Gauls were stereotypical depicted with beards and mustaches before roman colonization the so called "dying Gaul" used to be called the "dying Gladiator" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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