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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2300853, member: 44316&quot;]Prior to Hadrian, who wore a beard to conceal a facial flaw, Roman emperors were generally clean-shaven and had at most very short beards (for example, Titus had one when mourning the death of his father, Vespasian). Much later, under the tetrarchs, emperors had very neatly trimmed short beards. In the third century all emperors old enough to have beards had them. Perhaps the most dramatic was the beard of Postumus, Gallo-Roman emperor 259-268. He has a &quot;Santa Claus&quot; beard:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]462333[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]462334[/ATTACH]</p><p>24-23 mm. (Remarkably large flan) Struck at Lugdunum.</p><p>IMP C POSTVMVS PF AVG</p><p>HERC DEVSONIENSI</p><p>Hercules standing right leaning on club and holding bow and lion skin.</p><p>RIC 64 &quot;of Deuso, on the Rhine, which as Deutz, still forms the eastern bridgehead of Cologne.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Foss in <i>Roman Historical Coins</i> says &quot;Honors the patron god of Deuso where Postumus was proclaimed emperor (or perhaps was born).&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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