I think we need our own 'Post an Old Coin and and an Old Tune' thread

[Sulla80]

Disco Domitian

 

Edited August 10 by Sulla80

[expat]

 

Fortuna Redux is Latin for safe return

Trajan AR denarius, 116 AD.

Obv: IMP CAES NER TRAIAN OPTIM AVG GERM DAC, laureate, draped bust right.
Rev: PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P SPQR - Fortuna seated left,
holding rudder and cornucopiae. FORT RED in ex.

RIC II, 315; RSC 150; BMCRE 634; Sear 3139 var

17 mm, 2,80 g

[Sulla80]

13 hours ago, expat said:

[Ten-Speed]

Below is a fictional conversation created for this posting:

It is said that there was a time in Britain when Constantine and his father Constantius were talking abut whether to extend the boundaries of the Empire. "If we keep going," said Constantine, "we could surely get a lot more in tax money." "My son," said Constantius, "there are many creative ways to raise taxes and generate revenue." 

"But Father," Constantine said, "why can't we keep going, just because it's there?

"My son, my son, it's a long way to Tipperary."

Note: None of the Roman emperors ever made it to Ireland; they reached Britain but it was just too long a way to Tipperary.

 

 

Yes, it's a long way to Tipperary...

 

Edited August 12 by Ten-Speed

[Roman Collector]

Jack Russell, founding member and singer of Great White, died peacefully at home surrounded by his wife, son, and friends after developing Lewy body dementia and multisystem atrophy.

Degenerative neurological diseases are among the most difficult of all disease to experience for both the person with the disease and their loved ones. My heart goes out to Russell's family.

 

Here's a song about a woman who died too soon, a victim of malicious forces. I choose a coin of Plautilla to accompany the video.

 

Plautilla, 202-205.
Roman AR denarius, 3.25 g, 19.6 mm, 6 h.
Rome, 204 CE.
Obv: PLAVTILLA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust of Plautilla, right.
Rev: VENVS VICTRIX, Venus standing left, holding apple in extended right hand and palm in left hand, resting left elbow on shield; at feet, left, Cupid.
Refs: RIC 369; BMCRE 429; RSC 25b; RCV 7074; CRE 437.

Edited August 17 by Roman Collector
I have OCD

[Al Kowsky]

                                        Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Curtis Lee, 1961

                                         

                                              

[expat]

Julia Soaemias. Augusta AD 218-222. Rome
Denarius AR 17 mm, 2,53 g
Julia Soaemias Denarius. 220-222 AD. IVLIA SOAEMIAS AVG, draped bust right / VENVS CAELESTIS, Venus standing half-left, holding apple and sceptre, star in right or left field. RIC 241; Sear 7719; RSC 8a.

[Phil Anthos]

The Gods were very active here in Oregon yesterday, with thunder crashing most of the day. Very cool! So...

Syracuse, Timoleon and the Third Democracy

344-336 BC AE Hemidrachm (23mm, 12.40g) O: Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right, hair short; ZEYΣEA EΛE-YΘEPIOΣ to right. R: Thunderbolt; eagle with closed wings standing to right; ΣYPAKOΣIΩN around. HGC 2, 1440; Calciati II p. 167, 72; SNG ANS 477ff; SNG Cop 727; Sear 1192 ex Forvm Ancient Coins

[akeady]

I did a bit of tidying tonight, was reminded of this - the late Karl Wallinger and World Party 🙂

Here's one I photographed yesterday, from a recent Naville auction - it came with BCD's ticket and a few photos of the coin.

Thessaly, Kierion Obol circa 350-325, AR 12.00 mm., 0.74 g.
Horse standing r., foreleg raised. Rev: KIEPIEIΩN Warrior advancing r., holding sword and shield. BCD Thessaly II 104.3

From the BCD Collection, ticket included, reportedly purchased in 1976.

ATB,
Aidan.

Edited August 22 by akeady

[expat]

In August 249, Philip I was killed near Verona in battle against Decius, who had been proclaimed Augustus by the Danubian armies. Severa was in Rome; when the news of her husband's death arrived, their son, Philip II, was murdered by the Praetorian Guard still in her arms. Severa survived her husband and son and lived later in obscurity.

Father and Son, Philip I and II on the reverse

Marcus Julius Severus Philippus (Philip the younger). Struck under Philip I

Philip II, AR antoninianus. 22.4 mm, 4.91 g.(Thick flan), Rome mint, 249AD.
IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / LIBERALITAS AVGG III, Philip I, holding short sceptre, and Philip II seated left on curule chairs, extending right hands. RIC 230; RSC 17, Sear 9265.

[-monolith-]

I don't know if this one has already been posted but I'm not going to scroll thru 55 pages to find out:

Long long ago,

in China I'm told,

to England was traded some tea.

And so sealed the fate,

in pieces of eight,

all England and all of the world.

Yeah.....poppies

 

Marcy Playground - Poppies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeDiqJNetIc

I couldn't figure out how to embed the video so I just posted the link.

Baskets With Poppies:

Edited September 2 by -monolith-

[Roman Collector]

I just discovered Riley Lee, who plays music by Hildegard von Bingen on the shakuhachi, a Japanese flute. Although it sounds "new age," the music is from the 12th century and the flute is from prehistoric times.

 

The album is called "Nobel Greenness," which is a translation and allusion to Hildegard's "O nobilissima viriditas." So, here's a coin whose patina can be described as "noble greenness."

Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.
Roman orichalcum sestertius, 23.16 g, 29 mm.
Rome, AD 142.
Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right.
Rev: ANNONA AVG S C, Annona standing right, between modius and prow, holding corn ears and out-turned cornucopiae.
Refs: RIC 597; BMCRE 1228; Cohen 37; RCV 4147; UCR 502.