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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roerbakmix, post: 3810248, member: 100731&quot;]My only Macrinus, with a short beard <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macrinus-denarius.347819/#post-3742392" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macrinus-denarius.347819/#post-3742392">(posted on CT before)</a>. I&#039;ve read somewhere - not sure whether it&#039;s true or not - that Macrinus tried to copy his more illustrious predecessors Marcus Aureliusand&nbsp; Septimus Severus who, with their luxuriant flowing hair would probably have been a very suitable candidates for the <a href="https://www.improbable.com/hair-club/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.improbable.com/hair-club/" rel="nofollow">Luxeriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists</a>, had the IG-Nobel prize existed in those days. Anyway, during his short reign of 14 months, his beard managed to grow to enviable length, but despite that, he was still executed, and his decapitated head (with beard?) sent to Elagabalus. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2019-10-1_16-29-15-png.1003374/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Obv</b>: IMP CM OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, bust of Macrinus, laureate, cropped beard, cuirassed to the right.</p><p><b>Rev</b>: SALVS PVBLICA, Salus, draped, seated left on throne with high back, feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled round altar and holding sceptre in left hand</p><p><b>Weight </b>2.45 g, <b>diameter </b>19mm</p><p>Small flan break in the &quot;A&quot; of &quot;AVG&quot;(obv) and &quot;S&quot; of &quot;SALVS&quot; (rev).</p><p>RIC 86 (?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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