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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Wowzers! (do you think it helps him balance  ) |
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 United Kingdom
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Impressive gravity defying styling indeed. another one from S. Africa  |
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Australia
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Lenin:  Alisher Naboi:  There's a few more on Russian coins but I'll have to dig them out. |
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Belgium
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There's always good old Leopold II  Edited by bart
07/10/2013 4:50 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Some of these beards are really weird.
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United Kingdom
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I wondered when Lenin would turn up! Here he is again, on an earlier coin, with a silver Rouble of Tsar Nicholas II for comaprison (a Russian pre-Revolutionary beard!)  |
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Though it's not a "coin" as such, I don't think any discussion on this topic would be complete without a mention of Russian beard tokens. Tsar Peter the Great attempted to Europeanize his country, and beards were unfashionable in Europe in the early 1700s. So he declared everyone (except the Orthodox priests) must either shave their beards off or pay a tax. The tokens were then given as proof of having paid the tax that year. Commoners paid a small tax and were given copper tokens; merchants and aristocrats paid a higher tax, and were given a silver token. The Wikipedia article has a picture, as does this old forum thread. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United Kingdom
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This one is a "tufty" sort of affair  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A man without a beard
can neither have pride or be feared.
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Oh my goodness, the 1896 Hungarian is beautiful! I still find it hard to understand that they only issued it for circulation in the 1 Corona size, where the detail just disappears. I don't think I have much to contribute in the way of beards, but I have found myself with a bit of a collection of moustaches. The most amazing is on a Persian coin I haven't photographed yet, but Pilzudski of Poland & King Humbert of Italy both have pretty much a walrus thing going on. Here is a Bolivian proclamation medal, which (I am given to understand) circulated as money because they had revolutions so often that many of the coin blanks were used up in producing these pieces. This guy is Belzu, the "Constitutional President", presumably in opposition to some other claimant.  The reverse has a pretty crazy scene of Hercules fighting the Hydra. |
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United Kingdom
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Those restrikes are very crisp. This is a double whammy - Severus on the obverse - but also on the reverse - with pointy curly beard in evidence.  |
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Here are Saints Cyril (Kyrill) and Methodius.  |
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