Could these two images be the same guy?

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OwlHoot replied

9 March 2017, 11:31
Originally posted by vetran View Post

If you showed me the second coin & the statue I would say they are closer, brows are more similar, both noses are straight. The first coin has a monobrow and button nose.

That's what I thought (both images are of the same stone carving BTW, from different angles).

But bear in mind that the carving has been there for several hundred years, and around for two or three hundred years longer, and may have been touched up over time where the paint has faded or started flaking off.

Plus, the carving is looking downward, so the chin is less prominent than on the coin, in fact pretty much concealed from ground level.

Also the carving is helping support several thousand tons of masonry, which may help explain the thick neck!
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vetran replied

9 March 2017, 11:13
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Fairs points although, due to technical limitations of the time, the image on the coin is little more than a crude caricature

Here is a side view, taken with my trusty Canon, with another coin of the same time to match.

(Unfortunately it came out way too dark as I had it on the wrong setting and didn't realize until I was back home! )

If you showed me the second coin & the statue I would say they are closer, brows are more similar, both noses are straight. The first coin has a monobrow and button nose.

Though recess under the chin & shape of jowls are wrong on second coin.
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OwlHoot replied

9 March 2017, 10:14
Fairs points although, due to technical limitations of the time, the image on the coin is little more than a crude caricature

Here is a side view, taken with my trusty Canon, with another coin of the same time to match.

(Unfortunately it came out way too dark as I had it on the wrong setting and didn't realize until I was back home! )
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LondonManc replied

8 March 2017, 17:39
Originally posted by vetran View Post

the coin has a monobrow.

And dreads.
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vetran replied

8 March 2017, 17:26
the coin has a monobrow.
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LondonManc replied

8 March 2017, 17:24
Probably not; one has a neck like Gladstone Small, the other's is like a giraffe.
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OwlHoot started a topic Could these two images be the same guy?

8 March 2017, 17:23
Could these two images be the same guy?

Curious to know if people reckon these two images are likely to depict the same guy.

I took the photo month or two ago, on a mobile phone camera, and it didn't come out too badly IISSM
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