Dang thats long!

Saw this listed on ebay, no reverse but wow that neck is one of the longer one's I have seen for him & my very first one was a longneck. I read these are usually referred to as "giraffe necks", this qualifies.

I find it very unappealing.

Makes you wonder if the engraver did it for his dislike of the emperor or what.

 

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Funny!

 

Where is this on eBay? I might want it!

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AGN-ROMAN-E...505420?hash=item360570b10c:g:D~0AAOSwayZXjqj6

 

Long neck? What long neck? Now this is a long neck where I come from:

 

Thanks.

 

WOW! He's gone Full Meerkat in that portrait!

 

Perhaps...

 

Wrong!

 

I'm surprised that neck fit on the coin. Did they use a wider flan just to get the neck in there?

 

Yeah, Wrong! It's clearly an Aurelian and not a Probus as listed. Other than that, I actually quite like it. The meerkat look suits him.

 

I've always thought is was curious that that long-necked bust varieties occur on the ants of Aurelian and Probus, but not on the coins of the other emperors around that time, Quintillus, Tacitus, Florian, Carus...It's an odd little mystery in the annals of Roman numismatic quirkiness.

 

Lol, I just BURST OUT LAUGHING!!!

 

I used to get nightmares about him.

 

Wow that brings me back, had one of those has a kid.

 

I can't say I ever recall noticing those 'long neck' varieties before.....weird but interesting!!

 

Claudius I has a pretty long neck on his Gallic mint bronzes. As a long-necked individual, I think these are perfectly normal coins.

 

Yeah, but you make it look good.

 

Best response for the win!

 

The flan was always to small for his full name: IMP C AVRELIANVS [BRONTOSAVRVS] AVGVSTVS.