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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Denis Richard, post: 26710407, member: 112673&quot;]Spend enough time photographing coins and you start to realize that numismatics doubles as an accidental barbershop archive of the elite.</p><p><br /></p><p>For hundred of years, coin engravers have been quietly documenting men’s hairstyles. Not just tidy classical curls and dignified side parts—but the full parade. Towering 18th-century arrangements that wouldn’t look out of place in an ’80s glamrock band. A walrus mustache so large you wonder how they manage to eat.</p><p><br /></p><p>So let’s have some fun with this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start with the 1948 Hungarian Silver 5 Forint. That&#039;s Sándor Petőfi, a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary, with a pompadour that defies gravity. Originally the pompadour was a ladies hairstyle named after Madame de Pompadour, (1721–1764), a mistress of King Louis XV of France, but Sándor rocks it too.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1705199[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like George IV, below, wasn&#039;t in the mood for posing on this day. He led an extravagant lifestyle and I&#039;m guessing he was hungover at this portrait session. He has what looks suspiciously like bed head, and apparently couldn&#039;t be bothered run a comb through it or even put on a shirt.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1705203[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The fellow on the 1947 Hungarian 5 Forint below is Lajos Kossuth, and in his mind a squirrel tail beard below the jaw line looks dashing. Or maybe he was trying to cover a double chin? I look at this portrait and think, “Sir, that is absolutely a comb-forward.” It is, but that&#039;s the style of the time and not his response to male pattern balding. Take a look at his Daguerreotype portrait from May 1852. I think you&#039;ll agree.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1705211[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your best examples of memorable men’s hair from coins—facial or otherwise. The taller the wig, the wilder the chops, the more gravity-defying the beard, the better. If the hair makes you look twice, it belongs here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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