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Did you ever find yourself looking at an old portrait coin and wondering what they really looked like? For starters here is Napoleon III of France. 
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"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Edited by Dorado
03/18/2019 6:15 pm
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Nice idea for a thread  Maharaja Sir Madho Rao Scindia of Gwalior (20 October 1876 - 5 June 1925)   |
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Lovely examples.  |
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Thanks to all! Lets keep it going.
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Its amazing how well the engravers capture their images. Quite an art. I imagine that a lot (if not all) of that work is now done on computers? Would be a shame to loose that art form. Awesome idea for a thread. Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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1981 Isle of Man Royal Wedding Commemorative Crown ...    Edited by chafemasterj
03/18/2019 5:07 pm
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Gosh, I hate to follow Prince CHarles and Lady Di with a homely Polish monarch, but ... Sigismund I (the old) ascended the Polish throne in 1507 when he was 40, and reigned another 40 years. His earliest portrait coin is dated 1528, and his last 1540. In all of them he is beardless. An example (not my coin):  Here is a painting done about 10 years earlier by the German painter Hans von Kulmbach (sorry ... I couldn;t find a photo). I guess SIgismund really liked that hat.  Edited by tdziemia
03/18/2019 6:09 pm
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I suppose I should post something for Ike.   |
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King Stefan Batory of Poland on a 1579 groschen coin:  And in a 1583 portrait by Martin Kober:  |
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I've found it intriguing that the Polish coins with Stefan Batory's image always show those two hairy moles on the right side of his face (also visible in the painting).
I guess he wasn't vain.
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Faustina the Younger. Roman Empress and wife of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. She appears to have been a fascinating woman and the Dupondius in my collection preserves the enigmatic, even saucy expression on her face. A gaze from across two millennia of years. Squire  |
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