Hallo my friends. I want to make a new thread about a coins with a portraits of famous world politicians which had a nicknames. I suppose that it will be interesting.
Simon Bolivar. The great leader of the Independence Movement in South America. He had a nickname "the Liberator".
Louis-Philipp I. French king at 1830-1848. His nickname was rarther funny - "the King - Pear". Because his face had a pear-shaped form.
Thomas Jefferson. The Third president of the USA (1801-1809). His nicknames: the Mad Tom; the Apostle of Democracy.
Epiphanes/Callinicus/Philometor, nicknamed Grypus (hook-nose), was crowned as ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 125 BC.