Coins in Art - Hans Memling 1480 painting of man holding Roman Nero coin
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I found a picture in an old art book which was a portrait of a man holding a coin.
Hans Memling, Man Holding a Roman Coin, painted around 1480
A closeup of the coin:
The coin has been identified as a sestertius of Nero struck in Lyons.
The coin's obverse legend appears close to "NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP PP" and there are around ten coins in the Roman Imperial Coins catalog matching this one.
The painting is in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp which produced the above public domain photograph
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There is also a painting by Sandro Boiticelli of a man holding a medal of Cosimo de Medici (in the Uffizi in Florence):
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Really neat, thanks for sharing !!!
cool!
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Imagine how cool it would be if he were holding a slabbed coin
This is great stuff but now I want to see more. I think Hans was very talented and now we are looking at his work 500 years later. Nobody will be looking at anything I did 500+ years from now.
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That's way cool, it also reminds me of some ebay pics of coins and thumbs
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