Neanderthals Among Us

I kind of forgotten this one until I got it photographed. These are the types of odd things I like:



Gallienus, 253 – 268 AD
Æ Antoninianus, Rome Mint, 20mm, 2.18 grams
Obverse: GALLIENUS AVG, Radiate head of Gallienus right.
Reverse: VIRTVS AVG, Mars standing right holding spear and globe, Q in right field.

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I cant tell, I'm guessing its overstruck.

 

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LOL, I call mine the Frankenstein Issue, but Neanderthal is PERFECT @Ken Dorney !

And this perfectly befits being minted under the monster Neanderthal... Tiberius!


RI Nero and Drusus Caesar under Tiberius Carthago Nova mint AE As 14-37 CE

 

Wow, Gallienus certainly has a serious "unibrow"

 

He should have a club in his hand or something.

 

I guess the engraver had a barbaric or prehistoric inspiration.

 

hahaha! perhaps the engraver thought of him as an ad"visor"><

 

Possible. My first thought was a die break but I'm just guessing, too.

Gordian has a splitting headache.

 

I think Marcian looks pretty Neanderthal here...

 

Gallenius had some interesting portraits.

 

He looks a bit brutal in my only example of a Gallienus.

 

I really do need to add a few more Egyptian tets to my collection.

Ptolemy X - Paphos Mint
Size: 26mm
Weight: 13.19 grams
Obverse: Diademed head right, wearing aegis
Reverse: PTOLEMAIOU BASILEWS, Eagle standing left on thunderbolt; L K (date) before; PA behind.
I suppose that I would have a head shaped like that if I was the product of 170 years of inbreeding!

 

That's cool Ken!!

I don't have any 'Neanderthals' that I've noticed but I'm still perplexed about this RR denarius with Mars looking anything but eternal---except as the 'walking dead'. I like the oddities too

 

LOL, good one. I agree: I believe the Ptolemy family had a unusually high DNA Sequence of Neanderthal genes...


Egypt Ptolemy I Soter Tet Delta bankers marks

 

It´s not very old but I can´t resist...

 

I just picked this one up. It is actually the bearded head of a satyr but it could pass for a Neanderthal in a pinch.

Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion. Ca. 310-304/3 B.C. Æ (21 mm, 5.56 g, 12 h).

 

This bust of Gallienus gave me a good chuckle...

 

Ouch!!!