Ancients => Post your favourite ancient coin & your favourite meal (and drink)

Yah, I've already done favourite tune and favourite movie, so I guess it's time to see what you ancient coin collectors "eat-n-drink" ...

=> oh, and please post your current favourite-coin (just to keep us honest) ...

yah, and I realize that daily-tastes always change, so I'm merely lookin' for "today's favourites"

Fine, I'll go first ... hmmm, well today's favourite is:

Breakfast => bacon & tomato sandwich (with an egg gushing-out the sides)

Lunch => beer and a bacon cheese-burger(s)

Dinner => huh, apparently I'm in a sushi/sashimi mood tonight (*sigh* => yah, like I can get that up here, eh?!!?) ... well, maybe pickerel-sushi?

Oh yah ... and here is today's favourite stevex6-coin ...





Yah okay fine, I realize this may be a fairly weak thread, but man, I am "really fricken hungry"!!

Cheers, gang

 

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Probably my gordian iii tet. So much better in hand.



Favorite food.....
Breakfast: Pop-Tarts
Lunch: Red Robins Hamburger
Dinner: Pizza, with anchovies...yes I love those fish.

 

mmmmmm, pop-tarts with anchovies!! (now you're talkin')

 

My favorite coin at the moment...

Julia Domna, AD 193-217
AR Denarius, 19 mm, 3.25 g, 12h; Rome mint: c. 205.
Obv.: IVLIA AVGVSTA; Draped bust right.
Rev.: MATER DEVM; Cybele, leaning on tympanum, holding branch and scepter, seated left on throne flanked by two lions.
Reference: RIC IVa 564 (Septimius); RSC 123.



As far as food goes, I'll take a bacon cheeseburger. As the saying goes, I didn't climb to the top of the food chain to eat grass.

 

Good news, Mat!

 

When i read that i immediately correctly guessed your location (Manitoba)





Breakfast-- Pancakes
Lunch, well today i had a mustard sandwich, pretty good
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Mustard-Sandwich only i used regular bread
Dinner- Pizza


Favourite Coin
Alexander Tetradracm Struck under Seleucus Nicator 311-305 BC (Price 3761)

 

Neither of my choices are expensive because few people agree with my choices. My favorite lunch is a Taco Bell Beefy Fritos Burrito and Senior drink (totaling $1 + 5 cents tax). When I'm feeling extra hungry, I go to Wendy's for a Crispy Chicken sandwich (99cents + 5 cents tax), Senior drink and promotional size charity frosty (you buy a tag good for a year for $1 - last year I had at least 50). I'm not into fine dining.

My Favorite coin is still that old Septimius VICTOR IVST AVG I have had since 1963 but the recent coin giving it a bit of competition is this Magnentius flipover double strike where the first strike was a brockage. I like technically odd coins more than most people. I'm not into perfect coins.

 

I like my coins more than I like most people too!

 

i don't know if this is my favorite, but its one of my favorites, and i haven't posted it in a while.





this is my favorite food, a japanese dish called okonomiyaki...




eggs, seafood, onions, mayo...other stuff....it's good.

like NAUGHTY good.


this is my favorite drink.





sooooooo gooooooooood.

 

Mmmm => looks yummy, chrsmat ...

=> Bing, I picture you as a BBQ steak kinda fella?

 

Favorite coin : Julius Caesar denarius.



Favorite food : Lunch today. Simple but satisfying plate at the neighborhood hawker center... barbecued pork tenderloin and roasted pork belly on rice with garlicky chilli sauce, all washed down with a cold cup of freshly-pressed sugarcane juice. Ahhhhh...

 

mmmmm, Z-Bro ... that sounds and looks pretty tasty

=> oh, and that's a very sweet coin too

 

Crazy yummy. Hard to beat pork done two ways on one plate, and at about $3.75 with the drink, it leaves a fair bit of change for the ol' coin budget .

 

I'm a pizza (not anchovies or mushrooms though)/bacon cheeseburger/beefy five layer burrito kinda guy (judge me I don't care! ).

My newest favorite to find a home in my collection:

Domitian, Roman Empire (revalued under the Ostrogothic Kingdom)
AE As/42 nummi
Obv: CAESAR AVG F DOMITIAN COS II, laureate head left, countermark XLII (42 nummi) in left field
Rev: VICTORIA AVGVST, Victory advancing right, standing on prow, holding wreath and palm branch, S-C across fields
Mint: Rome (struck 73-74 AD/revalued c.498-526 AD)
Ref: RIC 677

 

Well, yesterday was not a normal day. I spent the entire day till nearly 11pm at the hospital with the misses. Surgery day. Anyway, before she went to the hospital, she made a large pork roast with potatoes, carrots and onions. As side dishes she made cole slaw and green beans with pinto beans mixed in. And of course gravey. Lets see. For breakfast I had a fast food egg and sausage biscuit and I did not eat lunch.

My favorite coin today:

MN. FONTEIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS FONTEIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Jugate heads of the Dioscuri
REVERSE: Galley under oar
Struck at Rome 108-109 BC
3.9g, 20mm
Cr.307/1, Fonteia 7

 

Coin:

White Huns
AR Drachm Senmerv Crown Type. Tri-lingual.
Nezak (Nspk) Huns Kingdom of Zabul
Vakhu (Vasu)-Deva, Sub-ruler of Shahi Tigin
Circa Mint = ZAM (in pehlevi), date = 65 (685 AD)
31.8 mm x 3.33g.
Obverse: Bust of Vasu Deva right in Persian style. Bull head above crown ; 'thunderbolt' countermark, Gold plug countermark. Brahmi legend in field. Cursive Bactrian Greek Legend around.
Reverse: Zoroastrian fire altar and attendants. Pahlavi legend in fields, Cursive Bactrian Greek Legend around.
Note: Holed. Gold Plugged.
Ref. Göbl Hunnen Em. 244

Drink: Coke

Food: Traditional Indian Curry and a good butter Naan.

 

=> I hope everything goes well with your girl, big bro

 

indeed, hope all went well for mrs. bing!

 

I hope she recovers uneventfully, Bing.

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Favorite food and beverage?

Boring, but these tie as favorite beverages:



As for food, I agree with Noob. A good Indian curry is always welcome. Better though is Thai... panang curry, garee curry, musman curry, etc. And always always always with a bowl of super yummy Tom Kah Gai soup:



I'd eat Ethiopian regularly if there were any restaurants in my neck of the woods. I've tried and failed to make injera several times, once causing mild food poisoning . Injera a fascinating and very tasty Ethiopian flatbread/crepe/pancake upon which the food is piled. You also use the bread to grab mouthfuls of the stewed food. Mmm mmm good.


As for favorite ancient coin, it's so difficult to choose! I love all (well, most) of my coins. I guess good ol' Arethusa is still the winner but I've posted that Agathokles tet so many times. Instead, here's my awesome Selinos litra.


SICILY, Selinos.
Circa 410 BCE
AR litra, 11mm, 0.76 g, 1h
Obv: nymph seated left on rock, right hand raised above her head, extending her left hand to touch coiled serpent before her; selinon leaf above
Rev: man-faced bull standing right; ΣEΛINONTIOΣ above; in exergue, fish right
Ref: HGC 2, 1229; SNG ANS 711–2 var. (ethnic); SNG Ashmolean 1904–5; SNG Lloyd 1270 var. (same); Basel –; Dewing –; Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 6. Good VF, dark iridescent tone, some porosity. Rare.

ex MoneyMuseum, Zurich;
ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 404;
ex Athos Moretti collection, #482, unpublished manuscript.

 

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