Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2538426, member: 56859&quot;]Suetonius, known for his trash-talking biographies, described Nero (paragraph 51):</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;He was about the average height, his body marked with spots and malodorous, his hair light blond, his features regular rather than attractive, his eyes blue and somewhat weak, his neck over thick, his belly prominent, and his legs very slender. His health was good, for though indulging in every kind of riotous excess, he was ill but three times in all during the fourteen years of his reign, and even then not enough to give up wine or any of his usual habits. He was utterly shameless in the care of his person and in his dress, always having his hair arranged in tiers of curls, and during the trip to Greece also letting it grow long and hang down behind; and he often appeared in public in a dining-robe, with a handkerchief bound about his neck, ungirt and unshod.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Huh.&nbsp; I always pictured him as brunette, thanks to John Belushi <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nerosestertius-rt-jpg.470673/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Nero</b></p><p>struck in Rome, CE 63</p><p>Orichalcum sestertius, 34 mm, 26.7 gm</p><p>Obv: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP PP; laureate head right, wearing aegis</p><p>Rev: ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES; Ceres, veiled and draped, seated left, holding corn ears and torch, her feet on stool, facing Annona standing right, holding cornucopia; between them, modius on garlanded altar; in background, stern of ship</p><p>Ref: RIC 98. Cohen 24</p><p><i>Formerly stuck in an NGC slab</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in