Helmets on Ancient Coins

Great pickelhaube , @Mammothtooth ! My dear brother is a trombonist and one of the bands he belongs to is an Oktoberfest group who dress in traditional costumes including 19th century military uniforms.

 

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I like very much the Corinthian helmet painted like a Vietnam War-era US M1 helmet. Why not, after all? While Athenian youths were being drafted for the Peloponnesian War, that liberal Aristophanes wrote and staged protest comedies against this war, demanding Peace be given a chance.

 

Here's Maximinus II as caesar with a griffin on his helmet. This is RIC VI Antioch 125 dating to 309-310 AD when Maximinus was in major self-promotion mode, putting out a bunch of special reverse types and busts, prior to (it appears) declaring himself augustus, or at least having pressured the ailing Galerius to finally agree to it.

 

Too bad you don’t have his Picklehaube

 

Great helmet

 

Some great helmets in another great DR thread!
Here are some fierce looking helmets

 

One of my relatives fought in the Battle of Verdun too, Donna and lived to be 96.

I got a slew of "Helmeted Coins"

 

Were they all decorated like yours underneath the cloth/canvas covering, or only fancy ones used for parades and the like? I'm afraid my grandparents were allowed to take very little with them when they finally were able to leave Germany at the end of May 1941. I do have my grandfather's World War I medals.

 

Generally enlisted men’s Picklehaube had a helmet plate from
the state they were in. A leather chin strap and a National Emblem called a cokarden on one side and the Srate Cokarden on the other side. The spike was removable. Soon after major combat they went to the steel helmets. Here is an officer one. From my collection. The body of the helmet was a pressed material that was then lacquered. Much fancier than enlisted mans

 

..i also have a picklehaube helmet i bought years ago thinking it may have been an old toy...but turns out it is a sergeant at arms helmet from the late 1800's used by the organization of "The Oddfellows"

 

I have 4 I need to find new homes for. Had to buy new furnace….Found a nice Roman Gaulic, thanks for the help.

 

i understand..i haven't got any place to put anymore helmets in my house...

 

I don't think Endubis is wearing a helmet, it is rather a headcloth like a bandana.