Fascinating to see the realism of these portraits degrade toward the end of the empire....pic.twitter.com/wHOMHduxUQ
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sorry for the confusion - i should have replied to the first tweet - i meant the decline in the roman coins
Partly that conditions were worse in the later Empire. Partly that artistic traditions changed. Partly that the coins were made in different places (later = further east).
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makes sense amazing to see the continuity within these coins shows the (literally) epic scale of the western roman empire
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