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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1924375, member: 19463&quot;]You know I am not nearly the collector of the women as you are but I did recently get this modern beauty. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]330950[/ATTACH]</p><p>No, not Victoria --- the other side.&nbsp; The model for the seated Britannia was Frances Teresa Stewart (1647–1702), Dutchess of Richmond best known for refusing to be the mistress of king Charles II.&nbsp; While she was considered to be the greatest beauty of her time, she contracted smallpox and was horribly scarred.&nbsp; The Britannia for which she sat provided the reverse for millions of pre-decimalization pennies and fractions.&nbsp;&nbsp; There have been some similarly posed issues since decimalization and it is said that the face was changed on occasion (to and from Queen Anne?) so I&#039;m not sure exactly how we are to tell the original beauty from a generic Britannia the lady does seem to have lasted well all things considered. </p><p><br /></p><p>Next I&#039;ll offer my tooled fake of Zenobia of Palmyra who was also supposedly a beauty in her day before being deposed by Aurelian and faked here probably from an as of Titus.&nbsp; I suggest the nose on this item looks a bit more like Titus than like Zenobia but it is her name that ended up on the coin. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]330960[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, in my parade of the unreal women of coins, are a few idealized beauties of the early Greek period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arathusa of Syracuse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330961[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>An uncertain female facing and Aphrodite in profile of Tarsos</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330962[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and later, three graces of the third century AD by Caracalla</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330963[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Happy Birthday, Mat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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