COVID Cuts

With the closing of hair salons due to the mandatory COVID-19 shut-downs in most locales, it has resulted in some, how shall we say, less than perfect haircuts. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/people-cutting-hair-during-lockdown-21758951


Perhaps some were inspired by Titus' Moe Howard hairdo on this Ephesian denarius.

Titus as Caesar
AR Denarius, 2.69g
Ephesus mint, 71 AD (Vespasian)
Obv: IMPERATOR T CAESAR AVGVSTI E (sic); Head of Titus, laureate, bearded, r.
Rev: CONCORDIA AVG; Ceres std. l., on ornate high-backed chair, with corn ears and poppy and cornucopiae; in exergue, EPHE
RIC 1440A. BMC 467 var. RSC 39 var. RPC 843 var. BNC 358 var.
Ex Gemini X, 13 January 2013, Harry N Sneh Collection, lot 742. Acquired from Ponterio, c. 2003.

In solidarity with those unfortunate poorly coiffed souls, please post your less than perfect coin hairdos.

 

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OTHO
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: IMP M OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P, bare head right
REVERSE: VICTORIA OTHONIS, Victory standing left on globe, wreath extended in right, palm frond in left
Struck at Rome, Jan-Feb 69 A.D
3.179g, 18.7mm
RIC I 17, BMCRE I 25, SRCV I 2165

 

Or how about bringing back the mullet

TROAS KEBREN
AR Obol
OBVERSE: Archaic head of Apollo left
REVERSE: Ram'S head left within an incuse square
Struck at Troas, Kebren Circa 450 BC
.56g, 7mm
Rosen 534; Traité pl. xxxix, 25, SNG Ashmolean 1086
ex. Aegean Numismaics

 

Can you also trim my beard? -Lucius Verus quote-

 

Who will trim this wonderful helmet of hair?


Magnentius, AE Centenionalis, Treveri, 352 AD, (23.3 mm, 4.55g), Bare-headed bust to right, A behind/ Two Victories holding wreath with inscription VOT / V / MVLT / X; TRP in exergue

 

I’m with Bing. Practical.

 

Nero always showing off his hairstyle. Always the showman,





Nero (Augustus)
Coin: Brass Sestertius
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P - Laureate head left
SC - S C: View of triumphal arch, showing front and left hand side; above, the Emperor in a quadriga escorted by Victory; arch is heavily ornamented and decorated with statues of Pax, Mars and two soldiers
Exergue:



Mint: Rome (circa 64 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 25.29g / 35.4mm / 6h
Rarity: Common
References:
RIC I 144
WCN 134
Provenances:
From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor.
purchased from Paul Rynearson, 30 September 1991
Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
Acquisition/Sale: CNG Internet 427 #430 $0.00 08/18
Notes: Jan 4, 19 - The Gary R. Wilson Collection

 

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for 1960s hairstyles to return!

 

The wig is the perfect option



Otherwise, I look pretty wild :



Q

 

My hairdresser can stay closed for another year or two.

 

I just trim so that my hair does not touch my ears. I can go a few months until the fluffiness gets too annoying.

Bad hair day:

 

Naw, that is one of my favorite coins that I do not have. Not a "bad hair day", she is Eclectic.

An old adage as to chosing your barber: Make sure they have the WORST haircut.


She be Funky... according to legend, she was a Brick-House!

Kolchis
5th-4th C BCE
BI hemidrachm 11.5mm 1.8g
Archaic female head possibly Georgian goddess Dali -
Bull head border
SNG Cop 98

 

Relatively few of the coins shown here were bad haircuts but just a fashion that modern people who judge each other by hair style choose to ridicule. My offering is extremely fashionable for those who live in a river.
Gela, Sicily, AE onkia bull/river god


Suggestion: Do not make fun of a river god's hair-do within 30 minutes of going swimming.

 

Good thread idea! I just had the little lady buzz it all off. But can see how it is effecting all kinds of ancients:

Medusa just can’t get her snakes under control!


This poor Gorgon’s haircut looks like Loyd Christmas:



Even the Ketos monster is having issues with his spikes getting to long:

Looks like Pan and the nymphs are going with the long wet and greasy look...


And lastly, I’m not gonna be the one to tell old Bes that his flat top is reaching don king proportions

 

Should your hairdresser not showing in months, you always have the headband option












Q

 

My hair is getting rather long so I told my wife to get out the spoolies.


APOLLONIA PONTICA
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: Gorgoneian facing with snakes for hair and a protruding tongue
REVERSE: An anchor flanked by letter A and a crayfish, which represents the minting city of Apollonia, the major fifth century BC Greek colony on the west coast of the Black Sea, modern Sozopol in Bulgaria
Struck at Apollonia 450-400 BC
3.13g, 14-15mm
BMC IX, Black Sea 150-151

 

Postumus should have paid a visit to the barber.


Postumus 260-269
AR Antoninianus
struck 263 AD
4,26g/20mm
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG
radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
PAX AVG
Pax standing left, holding olive branch
and sceptre.
Ric 78

 

..i believe his Titus's brother, Domitian was of that school too..never a bad hair day..

 

Wow! That looks like Otho.