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Post-WW1: modern portraits of real people wearing a laurel wreath

Started by <k>, September 16, 2015, 10:42:48 PM

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<k>

During the neoclassical period and up to the end of the First World War, monarchs were commonly portrayed wearing a wreath. After the First World War, three European empires collapsed, and old traditions began to disappear. Surprisingly, some monarchs or rulers were still occasionally portrayed with laurel wreaths.
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Elizabeth II. This portrait was issued from 1953 to 1970.
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Pellinore

And what I also would like to see, is a serious photo of someone in the 20th or 21st century wearing a laurel crown as headgear (no art, not humor, no movies, just real victors or real royals).
-- Paul

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Philippines 10 sentimos 1983.jpg

Philippines, 10 sentimos, 1983.

Francisco Baltazar (1788-1862 ), a Filipino writer.

He is usually portrayed wearing a laurel wreath on the coins of the Philippines.
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FosseWay

The Gillick portrait of QEII is still in use on Maundy money, though that hardly counts as circulation coinage.

Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, I believe it is a silhouette version of the Gillick portrait that is used on non-definitive UK stamps. Definitives carry the Machin portrait, of course.

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That's correct, and so are you.
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ChrisHagen

I believe the winner of the annual World Chess Championship is presented with an over-sized laurel wreath. Not sure if it counts, as its not really worn as a crown ;)

Here Magnus Carlsen can be seen wearing his wreath in 2013.


<k>

In the UK we have the official honorary position of Poet Laureate, which suggests that the holder gets to wear a laurel wreath, but I have never seen this applied in practice.
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Romania, 100 lei, 1922.  Gold bullion coin.  King Ferdinand I.
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