Coins with Fellows with Beards

Classic Stash

 

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What on earth is this coin? I've literally never seen it before in my life. It says it is US? Some sort of commemorative?

 

Yep it's Commemorative

 

This is right in my wheelhouse.

 

Beards through the ages (or from 161 to 1624)


Marcus Aurelius. AR Denarius. Struck 161/2 AD. M ANTONINVS AVG, bare head right / CONCORD AVG TR P XVII, COS III in exergue, Concordia seated left, holding patera, resting left elbow on statuette of Spes set on base. 18mm 3.4gm


Julian II (360 - 363) AE1 (BI Maiorina); Thessalonika Mint; Obv: DN FL CL IVLIANUS PF AUG; Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right; Rev: SECVRITAS REIPVB; Bull standing right, two stars above;*TESΓ in exergue; Ref: RIC 226; NGC Graded Ch. XF



Leo V AD 813-820, Æ Follis (21.59mm, 5.48 grams) Constantinople Mint; Obv: LЄ-OҺ ЬASIL, crowned and draped bust facing, holding cross potent and akakia; Rev: Large M, [X/X/X] to left, cross above, N/N/N to right, A (officina) below, Sear 1629



H4516 - ENGLAND, Henry III (1216-1272), Penny, 1.31g., Voided Long Cross Coinage, Class 3c, (1248-1250), Nicole - Canterbury, crowned facing bust of Henry, i.m. star, HENRICVS REX III, rev., voided long cross with trefoil of pellets in each angle, NICOLE ON CANT, (N.988; S.1364), almost very fine.


James I sixpence

 

Civil war store card.

 

The Queen never failed to put out endless images of her face on the front.

 

Store card.

 

I took one look at that coin and thought "jeez that dude must have been really, really uncomfortable in the Jamaica heat" LOL

 

The top one used to have one!!.