Art and political history: portraiture "Thrace", king Lysimachos (323-281 BC),tetradrachm, McClean coll.4486 Starting with the idealistic portrait of Alexander, deduced from Alexander’s "Heracles-portrait", the Hellenistic art of coin portraiture takes off. © Fitzwilliam Museum

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