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The first portraits on ancient coins of living people were Persian satraps. In Greek coinage, Demetrios I Poliorketes was among the first to include his own portrait, while Julius Caesar established a precedent in Roman coinage by adding his.

Aelia Eudoxia 395-401 CE
Cross | Diademed | Portrait
Aelia Eudoxia (wife of Arcadius)
Antioch, 395-401 CE
Æ 2.44g, 17mm, 6h
AEL EVDOXIA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, being crowned by the hand of God above
G[LORIA RO]MANORVM, empress enthroned facing, hands on breast, being crowned by the hand of God; cross in right field, ANTA in exergue.
RIC X 83; LRBC 2805
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