Ancient Greek & Roman Coins: As the old saying goes, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” To most coin collectors, condition is everything. Our subject here is a matter that is very important to some collectors but often seems overlooked by the masses who set demand and prices. An early page on this site visited a coin showing my personal favorite portrait of the young Caracalla Caesar. What made that coin special was ’style’ but the precise definition of that term is not all that easily set into words. What made that coin special was not its condition (it was only ‘fine’) nor its rarity but the success with which the die cutter captured the likeness of the young boy who later would become that snarling adult capable even of killing his own brother.
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