Post Your Chin Coins!

We have elephant and owl themed threads, so why not a "Chin" coin one? Maybe I'm a little crazy but I like coin portraits depicting people with strong chins. Ptolemy I, Maximinus I, or any others you might have. Other strong or unusual features welcome. Cheers!

Imperial Rome. Maximinus I, AE Sestertius (19.07 g, 30 mm). Rome. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / FIDES MILITVM SC, Fides standing , holding two standards (C.13; RIC.78).

Maximinus Thrax was supposedly 8 feet 6 inches tall and could throw a small horse at you if he wanted to. Probably an exaggeration but who knows? It has been suggested that he suffered from Acromegaly. Think Rondo Hatton, Lurch, Jaws from the James Bond films, and The Hulk all combined into one.

 

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Tetradrachm (17.04 gm). Arados mint. Civic issue, dated CY 59 (201/0 BC).
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress
Rev: Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; palm tree in left field, AP monogram below throne, QN (date) in exergue.
Price 3389; Same obverse die as British Museum 1857,1218.8
CNG 67, September 2004, lot 449. (Garth R. Drewry Collection).

Arados is now called Arwad and home to 3000 people. It is a tiny island, apparently just a rock 740m long by 400m wide; 0.2 square kilometers. New York’s Central Park is 3.4 square kilometers – 17 times larger!

 

Here's another of Maximinus...

 

Must have been late in Herakles' career...he really needs to go on a diet with that double chin.

 

That's a marvelously macrognathic man, @Macromius

More magnificent mandibles:


PTOLEMIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Ptolemy I Soter
Struck c. 300-285 BCE, Alexandreia mint
AR tetradrachm, 28 mm, 13.92 gm
Obv: diademed head right, wearing aegis around neck, tiny Δ behind ear
Rev: eagle standing left on thunderbolt; to left, P above monogram
Ref: Svoronos 252; SNG Copenhagen 69; Noeske 40


LACONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta)
80-50 BCE
AR triobol, 2.29 gm
Obv: Head of Herakles right
Rev: Amphora; to each side, caps of the Dioscuri; all within laurel wreath
Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 868

 

This guy's always wanted to grow a chin



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I'll chime in with this Maximinus Thrax:

 

How about his SON, Thrax Jr?

RI Maximus Thrax JUNIOR 236-238 AE Sestertius Rome mint priestly emblems

 

..i thought it would be Chinese coins..

 

Max clearly wins the chin wars.

Like Ed, I have a couple of chinny Herakles:



I think my Antony's chin beats Cuke's by... a nose?


I always thought this was a particularly chinny Decius:


A barbarous chin and a half:


And finally my biggest lrb chin (Gratian AE2), plus my biggest medieval chin (Merovingian):

 

Here is my Qin (pronounced Chin) coin:



Sorry, had to do it. Cant believe nobody else showed one in the thread yet!

 

I was about to.

Surprised no one posted a Nero yet as well.

 

Here's a nicely detailed 19mm Licinius with an interesting profile and a knobby little chin. Looks like he tried to disguise his double chin with a beard. A caricature which looks nothing like his statues.

Does anyone know what ancient people the captive represents? Kushan? Indo Europeans?

 

...as they say in China..wong chin kin....

 

...captured ones ><

 

Dionysos got chin

 

DOUBLE CHIN


RR Anon AR Heavy Quinarius / Quadrigatus / Drachm 216-214 BCE Second Punic War - Janus - ROMA Jupiter Victory Quadriga LEFT Craw 29-4 Sear 35 Very Scarce

 

Hey everybody, thanks for making this thread so much fun. I'm very grateful to see so many outstanding "chin" coins.

Back to Roman Emperor Maximinus Thrax, the subject of my first post. Was he really 8 foot 6 inches tall as the often inaccurate Historia Augusta says, or could he actually have been bigger? Did he really wear one of his wife's bracelets as a ring on his thumb? That would be an awfully big thumb. I am including here a famous unretouched photo by Diane Arbus as an example of a very tall person. Exactly how big was Max Thrax? Something to think about.

@Roman Collector Thank you for your very fine example.