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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3047516, member: 91461&quot;]With much excitement over the last couple of months, I&#039;ve been able to gather a few of the hardest to find (on a po boys budget) classiest, sassiest, hair fantasticiest ladies of ancient Rome. I&#039;ve been stockin em up for this post.</p><p>Some aren&#039;t in the best condition<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie95" alt=":vamp:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>But hey, &quot;If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life never make a pretty empress your wife...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody has a more wild style then this gal (at least not until the Bee hive was popularized in the 1950s). I find it funny how, though Domitian did have a proclivity for relations with relations<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie105" alt=":yuck:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, his wife Domitia and he weren&#039;t related...but she sure has that sour Vespatiatic look on here face.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]761735[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And if you think this coin an exaggeration of her &quot;hair&quot;larious hairstyle. Here&#039;s the lady in all her grandeur!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]761749[/ATTACH]</p><p>Look at that glare<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie81" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> RBF much!</p><p><br /></p><p>Next up, a more pitiable woman of excess you&#039;d be hard pressed to find. Rival of the aforementioned Domitia, Julia Titi (Her name is hilarious. Take it in. Grow up. And move on) was daughter of the much loved emperor Titus. Titus wanted his daughter to marry her uncle (the eventual emperor) to solidify the empirial line. Domitian decided to marry Domitia, but keep poor Julia on as his lover (possibly due to the public reaction to their much flaunted incestuous relationship after breaking it off with Domitia they reconciled).</p><p>Whether due to this, depression or being born with her fathers good looks (What? To soon?) Julia is said to have taken her own life about a decade into her uncle&#039;s reign<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I was able to get a positive ID on this with a little point in the right direction from [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER]. Ty. Though I recently saw an absolute beauty of a denarius owned by [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] in another thread, I am happy with my dupondius and it&#039;s emerald green patina<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]761755[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Her coins kind of puzzle me as they really make her face look...like she has a great personality. But her bust shows a beautiful woman.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]761756[/ATTACH]</p><p>Delicate yet contemplative. My polar opposite.</p><p><br /></p><p>And last but not cheap...I mean least, Manlia Scantilla. Here is what is known of this Augusta of just over 2 months. Wife of (brief) emperor Didius Julianus. Mother of Didia Clara. Said to be the most beautiful young lady in Rome. One of, if not, the wealthiest families in Rome brought down by papa&#039;s lust for power. Within a month of her husbands murder she was herself swimming the Styx.</p><p>Shout out too Frank Robinson on this one! Though his pics never do em justice (not that mine do much better). A real treat in hand with that sea blue patina particularly on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]761766[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Kind of a boring hairstyle. But then again the other ladies had years in the limelight to craft their coif.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]761767[/ATTACH]</p><p>What a ride those 2 months must&#039;ve been!</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post those ladies of ancient Rome! Don&#039;t be stingy. Share the hair, heir And dairy air! And anything you deem pertinent. IF YA GOT IT FLAUNT IT![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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