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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8286757, member: 110350&quot;]I posted all or most of these before, but why not again?</p><p><br /></p><p>A few of my favorite helmets on ancient coins, atop the heads of Athena, Roma, Mars, Arcadius, and Constantinopolis:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/corinth-ar-stater-jpg-version-jpg.1415940/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antestius-combined-2-jpg.1415941/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/servilius-dioscuri-denarius-jpg-version-jpg.1415942/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/roman-republic-q-thermus-m-f-ar-denarius-103-bce-rsc-i-minucia-19-crawford-319-1-jpg.1415943/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/fonteius-capito-jpg-version-1-jpg.1415946/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/hostilian-mars-combined-jpg.1415945/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/arcadius-solidus-photo-dr-busso-peuss-jpg-version-from-ma-shops-jpg.1415950/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite helmet on an ancient artifact, a 60 mm. bronze figurine of Mars Ultor:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/mars-ultor-roman-bronze-2-jpg.1060414/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/mars-ultor-roman-bronze-3-jpg.1060415/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite old photo of someone in a helmet: my maternal grandfather in late October 1915 at the age of 20, taken in Cambrai in Northern France. He was an Unteroffizier in the 6. Infanterie Division, 12. Infanterie Brigade, Infanterie-Regiment</p><p>Großherzog Friedrich Franz II von Mecklenburg-Schwerin (4. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 24 [you can read the 24 on his shoulder], 11. Compagnie, and was wounded four months later at Verdun.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/ernst-mosevius-1915-new-version-jpg.1415951/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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