I just LOVE what you've done with your hair!/One for the ladies

Our numismatic scholars and catalogers seem to be happy to agree to disagree here. I think there's consensus that the model for this portrait is the nymph Arethusa (compare the portrait on my Opuntii to that one Terence's killer Entella Siculo-Punic tet), but the split between those who say Demeter and those who say Persephone seem to be about equal.

I haven't been keeping up to what they've been doing lately (or if they still have hair!), but they'll always be a sentimental favorite for me, especially because of "I Believe in a Thing Called Love", which my wife and I had blasted out as the first song on our wedding dinner playlist.

And here's another rocker who clearly cared about his hair...


CONSTANTIUS GALLUS
AE2. 4.32g, 22.9mm. Alexandria mint, AD 351-354. RIC VIII Alexandria 79. O: DN CONSTANTI-VS NOB CAES, barehead, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: FEL TEMP RE-PARATIO, helmeted soldier carrying shield, spearing fallen horseman; •S• in left field, ALEΔ in exergue.
Ex Giovanni Dattari Collection of Late Roman Bronzes

 

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Aah, @Roerbakmix, somebody did have the nerve to post an AEthelred II, after all!
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Julia Domna

Plautilla

Fausta

 

Lots of interesting coins. I like these threads.

Metapontum Nomos. Demeter? Maybe some other lady?



Terina Stater. Nymph Terina.


Knidos Drachm. Aphrodite.

 

Here is Faustina Junior with a very nice hairdo.