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On coinage struck during Caligula's reign we find a pattern of well-thought-out imagery on both the obverses and reverses of all of his coinage.
The Portraiture of Gaius Caligula the Seated Figure? by Joe Geranio by Joe Geranio / History community
The format of an engraved portrait gallery of coin obverses was carried forth in such works as the 1553 Promptuaire des medailles of Guillaume Rouiile, in which 828 numismatic portraits (likewise often fanciful) illustrate biographies of individuals from A dam and Eve to Catherine de' Medici.
Images of the Illustrious: The Numismatic Presence in the Renaissance by STAHL, ALAN M. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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