Ancient Forum's Picture the Poster

Last year when I was honored to walk my niece down the aisle at her wedding


JULIUS CAESAR
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Diademed head of Venus right.
REVERSE: CAESAR - Aeneas advancing left, carrying Anchises and palladium
Carthage 47 to 46 BC
4.0g, 17mm
CRI 55, Sydenham 1013, RRC 458/1, S 1402

 

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My daughter Brittany and me in Cabo San Lucas in 2009 . Brittany turns 30 in a couple of weeks and is excited whenever a new coin is acquired.

I recently decided to sell these 2 (non-Magna Graecia) coins, but she talked me out of it:

 

Alright! Good to see ya, Bing. The old fogies are finally showing up.

 

Your daughter is very pretty. Must take after her mother. And she was right in talking you out of selling those beautiful pieces.

 

On the wall behind me you can just see a framed drawing of Batman done for me by the legendary Neal Adams.

 

Fellow comic fan? Cool!

 

You have a nice little collection there. AK is fun to shoot. I use my SKS to deer hunt with. With the gun grabber politicians we has I won't post pics of my collection.
But I will do a selfie later. I'm hoping that a coin I bought about a week ago comes today so can get pic with it.

 

From earlier this year, mimicking Poseidon's wife . I cut my hair short soon after this picture.

 

I was curious. Most women who are highly intelligent are gorgeous but for whatever reason they seem to not think so.
Everything I've read your responses, you've taught me a thing or 2 about these ancients. It's appreciated.

 

Ahhh, TIF, everyone here was hoping to see your smiling FACE! Pishpash, Johndakerftw, and our other ladies...COME ON DOWN!

 

Thanks, @Smojo.

I do believe though that real beauty is on the inside, and I find intelligent (and kind) people to be beautiful. That's one of the reasons I love it here on the Ancients board.

Biased, perhaps, but I find the type of people who collect ancient coins to be more intellectually curious, and therefore more interesting, than most folks.

 

Wow! You look completely different from what I imagined. I wonder what people thought I looked like?

 

Good answer.
Ancients take a lot more research & a good memory also a lot of paying attention to the details. I've all but pushed my mods to the back of the safe for now. My mind changes directions a lot but I think it'll be a while before I get bored. I still have keys that I want to find. But I find these old ones are flexing part of my lil brain I haven't used in a while. It's fun, glad I have some of you to guide me along.

 

I look like I fall into the comic book convention world, which I attend alot of, not a coin convention.

I get alot of goto hell looks the few times I have attended Long Beach.

 

ME:
I generally have very few pictures of me. 10 years ago from one of my Factories in China.



COMICS: (NO, I am not into comics or superheros... just found this pic and thought others may enjoy...)
I also met superman in one of my trips to Hong Kong. I always walk around 5 miles each morning... He was protecting the city... (It is a True Story @TIF , I don't need to step away from the bong... )


COINS:
All of my coins are special, and is very difficult to pull one to post... Here are recent captures that I enjoy ... The Mysterious and Elusive ETRUSCANS:

Etruscans
AR 2-1/2 Asses (Similar to AR Sesteritius size)
3rd C. BCE
2 Known...


Etruscans
AR 10 Asses (Similar to Denarius size)
211-206 BCE
Die break


Etruscans
AR 20 Asses (Similar to Didrachm size)
3rd C. BCE

LOL, and hey, I do and have a lot of other things too...

 

Coin #0001 in my database, a Nero from Antioch.

 

Wow, I didn't know that I was supposed to post a photo showing my gun prowess?!



Okay fine, my gun is merely a bee-bee air-revolver ... but it is a Smith & Wessen (kinda cool)

=> "and" I get to fire it in my own backyard!! (priceless)

Whooops, I forgot to post a coin

 

Everyone knows what I look like. It's late here in Aus, this is me with bed hair:

As for a coin, here is one of my very favourites- an Alexandrian drachm of Hadrian. If my funds weren't being diverted to the portrait series, I'd definitely be focusing on Alexandrian drachma.

 

If you had a tux on in that picture, you could almost pass for Daniel Craig as 007. You even captured the 007 posture.

 

... or at least Jenny Craig, eh?