Titus with a neck beard!

Anyone have a Nero coin depicting him with that chinstrap beard?

 

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Yep. Here it is:

Nero; 54-68 AD. AR Denarius (3.4 gm). Obv: his lar. hd. r. Rev: "IVPPITER CVSTOS"; Jupiter std. l. holding scepter and thunderbolt. RIC 64; SM1930 (var)

 

And another:

Nero. 54-68 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.0 gm, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa 65-66 AD. Obv: NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate head right. Rev: SALVS in exergue, Salus, draped, seated left on ornamented throne, holding patera in right hand and resting left hand on side. RIC I, 71; RSC 316; BMC 98.

 

Great coins @PeteB. That Jupiter reverse Nero is great.

 

Outstanding coin Andrew!

All coins of Titus are bearded, it depends on the amount of wear whether you can see one or not. I always describe his coins as 'bearded'.

 

I never really noticed before, but I think you're right, even though the photos in RCV and RSC are so small that it's hard to tell sometimes. It's certainly true even of the coins issued when he was Caesar, like mine:


Taking that together with the coins (and statues) of Nero showing him with a chinstrap beard, as @Herodotus points out, it's rather obvious that the oft-repeated statements that Hadrian was the first emperor with any sort of beard are incorrect. Although I think it's still safe to say that he was the first emperor to wear a full beard! As I asked before, does a mere chinstrap really count in the world of beards? Based on the old family photos I have, my most recent direct male ancestor to wear any kind of beard was one of my great-great-grandfathers (my father was always clean-shaven, and one grandfather as well as both great-grandfathers wore mustaches), as shown in this 1859 photograph taken in Pomerania, in which he sits on the far right. But it was a mere chinstrap as well, and I probably saw this photo 100 times before I ever noticed it, because the portion under his chin blends in with his tie:



So I'm still not sure it really counts!

 

Here's another portrait of Carus sporting the combination of a neckbeard and a receding hairline:

Carus, silvered AE Antoninianus, 283 AD, Antioch Mint. Obv. Radiate bust right, IMP C M AVR CARVS PF AVG/ Rev. VIRTUS AVGGG, Carus receives Victory from Jupiter, star in upper field, XXI in exergue. RIC V-2 125(A), Sear RCV III 12190, ERIC II 141, Cohen 117. 20.25 mm., 3.59 g.

 

TI VETURIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS VETURIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Helmeted bust of Mars right
REVERSE: Youth kneeling l., between two warriors who touch with their swords a pig which he holds., ROMA above
Struck at Rome 137 BC
3.7g, 18mm
Cr.234/1; RSC Veturia 1

 

That's a goatee, not a neck beard! Is that a cigarette in Mars's teeth?

 

Toothpick! BTW, that is a neck beard. A goatee is only on the chin.

 

Today there are 5 neck beard coins on MA-Shops: https://www.ma-shops.com/shops/sear...&catid=-1&submitBtn=Search&lang=en&PHPSESSID=

And here are Titus coins: https://www.ma-shops.com/shops/search.php?searchstr=titus&catid=-1&page=2&ajax=1vfr

Have fun looking...!

 

On my very mediocre example of that coin, Mars is completely clean-shaven -- no goatee, no neck beard, no long sideburns, no cigarette or toothpick. In other words, more of an All-American Boy look than your 1950s beatnik look. I haven't checked to see which look is more prevalent for this coin type.

 

Pfft... That's not a neckbeard... This is a neckbeard