One Ugly Empress!!

Saw this recently listed on Vcoins & it caught my eye. Salonina portrait arent always the nicest looking but I thought this is one of the ugliest portrait of her I have seen.

Very manly.



Description under the coin: Excellent coin, in EF/VF+ condition, conserving full details in both sides (difficult to find in these issue), including a very interesting portrait of Salonina, desgined in a peculiar style. Good quality silver, much beter than usual in Salonina´s antoniniani.

Peculiar indeed....

I will admit it is nice condition wise, but I will stick with mine of the same type:

 

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Ugly? Are you kidding me?? She's ready for a beauty pageant compared coins of the Flavian women, where the engraver just slapped a female hairdo on the emperor's profile.

 

I don't think she looks ugly, just cross. Actually, the look on her face is somewhat familiar to me, but I just can't place where I've seen it.......


SALONINA
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, resting on crescent
REVERSE: DEAE SEGETIAE, statue of Segetiae or Ceres, nimbate, standing facing in four-columned temple, both hands raised
Struck at Lugdunum, 258 AD
3.1g, 22mm
RIC 5

 

Ya Mat, butt Ugly..

 

I wonder if the engravers ever got punished for "unfairly portraying" these powerful people?

 

... I admit that she isn't portrayed to be a real knock-out, eh?

Salonina AR Antoninianus
Date: 257-258 AD
Diameter: 23.6 mm
Weight: 3.3 grams
Obverse: SALONINA AVG - Diademed and draped bust of Salonina
Reverse: FELICITAS PVBLICA - Felicitas seated, holding caduceus and cornucopiae
References: RIC 6

 

Maybe the bronze and poor condition of this coin could hide the ugliness of that Empress a little bit. She might have a sweet character, though. Believe me that's more valuable and precious by every means.

 

Real life, sure, but shes been dead for over almost 2000 years, so its irrelevant now. I wanna look at pretty faces, not woofs

How many people find the susan b anthony dollar attractive?

 

It's Gallienus in drag.

 

Ha, female Hadrians are ugly, but Cleopatra is a female Ptolemy...yikes!!!

 

Are we safe in assuming that 2015 definitions of beauty held true in the time these coins were made? Do we know that small, delicate features were more valued then than a strong chiseled look? In my lifetime, female beauties have become less well padded and more athletic. Along the way we passed through a period where emaciated was in. What textual references do we have on which empresses were considered great beauties and which were desirable for other features (daughter of a powerful family, e.g.)?

 

http://www.boredpanda.com/women-ideal-body-type-history-video/

 

you're 100% correct, my mentor friend ...

=> I married my sweetie because she had a strong-back and could carry 4 bails of oats (*hot*)

 

A shame I tell you.

 

Actually JA hit my thought exactly when I saw it, "Gallienus in drag."

And I actually prefer "padded". I like meat on my females. Too many bones nowadays :/

 

Actually, I think that's what happened here too, it's just that Gallienus is a bit prettier than Titus.

 

It's an interesting coin to be sure, but not $100 worth of interesting. More like $50.

 

ugly empress or no....the coin is pretty!

what's that the kids do these days? swipe right if hot? swipe left if not? or the other way around.

i have no clue really.

 

Yes a nice coin, if not a pretty portrait, and not so often do we see such quality on Salonina coins

It's taken ages to me to find a decent sestertius for that lady



Salonina, Sestertius Rome mint, AD 256-260
CORNELIA SALONINA AVG, Diademed and draped bust of Salonina right
IVNO REGINA, Juno standing left, with patera and sceptre, SC in field
20.05 gr
Ref : RIC # 46, RCV #10679, Cohen #62

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She looks like the kinda gal that would say " If you get outta line again young sir im putting you over my knee and spanking your bottom "......OK im looking for more things to do wrong then

She's no Lucilla but, when in the Syrian Desert...

Her hair looks like a flapper chick from the early 1900's - circa Gatsby or maybe Edith