LEGEND: Legend: This page will evolve. Pictures may change over time. In the era before the camera, the only instance in which an artist could have an authentic “likeness” of a amonarch was during a live sitting. For the many dozens of mints away from the residence of the monarch, particularly in other countries, coin-makers could not see the subject. I believe, then, that coins minted had to reflect the maker’s fairly pure imagination of the look of a monarch. WHAT’S AUTHENTIC: There have always been and will always be many forgeries. We can’t judge but can guess no one will be forging a monarch to look black so if you have such a coin I assume it is more authentic than not. I believe the most reliable medium to reflect the actual appearance of a monarch would be the live sitting and at an event like a coronation, wedding, or burial statue. As earlier Shaddam selected lineages of monarchs from the family of Charles IV showing them as white, I am trying to show the black / African / Negro lineage of monarchs over the generations showing them as black. Black descendents should come from black parents. Bryan Sykes The Seven Daughters of Eve reports that there are over 140 mtDNA lines from Africa. 140 distinct “looks.” I will be looking for those coins reflecting such characteristics such as the button or rounded nose-tip [A, C, F], perhaps wide nostrils [C, H], full lips, that one is prognathous [G], woolly or wiry hair (even monarchs often used wigs hiding their real hair [D, E, F, G], paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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