Coins that portray ruler much younger looking....

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  1. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    I will start thread off with my 1848-A Vienna Mint/ AV 4 Dukaten/ Emperor Ferdinand V 1835-48
    His Royal portrait from 1843.... 220px-Kaiser_Ferdinand_I.jpg f5d2ab03ca76e995b53be1c4294754c4 (1).jpg
     
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  3. furryfrog02

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    That is a six head! The coin is MUCH better!
     
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  4. Steve66

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    That may be an 8 head
     
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  5. Evan8

    Evan8 A Little Off Center

    He's basically the opposite of the Habsburg's lol.

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  7. robp

    robp Well-Known Member

    Two immediately spring to mind -

    A relatively youthful looking 81 year old senile old fart
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    And a decidedly unrepresentative 76 year old great grandmother that belies her years
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  8. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Newfoundland
    AV 2 Dollars 1882-H Heaton Mint

    Queen Victoria is still depicted in youthfull bust lf (21).jpg lf (22).jpg
     
  9. Muzyck

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    edit; (I may have missed te point of the thread... but he is young)

    Faisal II as Regent. He would be murdered in 1958 at twenty three years of age.

    Iraq - 10 Fils, 1943

    Iraq 10 Fils 1943  rev B.jpg
    Iraq 10 Fils 1943  obv B.jpg

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    He was used as the model for the image of Tintin

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  10. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Coins that portray ruler much younger looking....

    With that as the topic it'd be kinda hard to forget about Louis XIIII, The Sun King. His reign of 72 years (1643-1715) was longer than any other in European history.

    Now I never cared for the coins of his later years, just didn't like 'em. But I was always fond of those from his early years, just something about the bust design that appealed to me. I never obtained one from his earliest years, but with this one, at the ripe old age of 10, he had already been King for 5 years.

    1648 Louis d'or obv 2.jpg 1648 Louis d'or rev 2.jpg


    The bust didn't change much over the next 10 years, but in 1659 they began to change.

    1649-G half ecu obv.jpg 1649-G half ecu rev.jpg


    1650-I half ECU ms64 obv.jpg 1650-I half ECU ms64 rev.jpg


    1650-N Louis d'or obv.jpg 1650-N Louis d'or rev.jpg


    1659-D one 12th ecu obv.jpg 1659-D one 12th ecu rev.jpg



    By 1659 he was 21, but as you can see from the bust he doesn't really look it, but you can see that he has aged from the earlier dates.

    By the late years of his reign, the difference is night and day of course. But as was usually the case they did portray him as being much younger than he actually was. He just doesn't look to be 73 in that portrait.

    https://coinquest.com/cq_data/cq_ro/coins_380/france_ecu_1711.jpg
     
  11. Muzyck

    Muzyck Rabbits!

    Queen Victoria, 1901. The year of her death.

    Ceylon - Quarter Cent, 1901

    Ceylon Quarter Cent 1901 obv A.jpg
    Ceylon Quarter Cent 1901 rev A.jpg
     
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