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Cograts, Steve. I know how you feel. My Dad is 95 and he is flying in, in a few weeks. I haven't seen him for a year, and at his age, a year is a long time.
W.W.II Vet.

Me and my Dad, one year ago.

 

Awesome, Topcat ... you dudes look good together!!

Yah, my cool ol' dad was a bomber pilot in WWII ... man, it must have been a different time, eh?

 

Hey dude, it was a different time.

 

@stevex6
Mine was a 'Flight Lieutenant' - Pilot Officer - Navigator in Bomber Command.
Trained in Canada.
"Never was so much, owed by so many, to so few." (Winston Churchill)

 

well this thread was delightful....awkward as hell in the middle...and then got cool again. sorry i missed it!

it was awesome seeing some of you, on a couple of occasions i was VERY surprised to see what you looked like.


here's the latest picture i have of myself and my two girls at the indiana military history museum.



how'd someone as ugly as me have such pretty girls?

since i have pretty girls, i also have firearms, i refrain from posting so things don't get weird here again.

my wife did not give me permission to post a pic of her, so i better not...don't want to get in trouble.

my dog max did give me permission to post his picture. i didn't know dogs took "selfies".




here's a coin i picked up in a small lot recently, a fairly rare provincial coin of elagabalus from mesopotamia..



there is darn near a hole in the obverse, but not quite. the only one i could find online had the following attribution..don't know the weight, i put it in my coin display at the school i work at before i could weigh it. i'll figure it out in a couple months.


Elagabalus, Mesopotamia,Edessa, 218-222 AD
O: Radiate bust of Elagabalus to right, R: Tyche seated left, river god below. BMC 59 26 mm, ?g.

 

Nope. You don’t look like a sordid illiterate Goth or Vandal without care for philosophy of Aristotle or works of Hesiod or Cicero. Rather you look like a civilized Roman one or actually a Byzantine one. More exactly…. general Belisarius indeed:






;-)

 

One last posting with images from Rome.
At the Coliseum


Porchetta meal Yummmmm


Wife having gelato

 

Sorry, but I had to get this in for him ...

=> yah, my Dad, (B.L.Peterson) is the dude in the top-left of the photo ... he loves that photo of himself (smooth fly-boy, with a cig)

 

Ooops ... okay, my nostalgia is all gone (sorry about that ... gawd, it's probably as bad as the gun thingy, eh?)



sorry ... I just love coins and I love things that are cool

 

I don't think so. I think it's great showing these images. I know you're proud of your father, and you should be. I wish I had some digitized images of my father who I am equally proud of and I miss terribly.

 

I wish I could contribute to the colleseium photos, but I have none with me in them! So here's my father and I in front of Constantine's arch:


That's back in the pony-tail days... Here's a few Constantines celebrating Rome to go with it:

Imperial Rome
Constantine I, r. 307-337 A.D. (330 A.D.)
Rome mint, AE3, 17.72mm x 2.6 grams
Obv.: VRBS ROMA, Helmeted, plumed bust of Roma left, wearing imperial mantle
Rev.: She-wolf standing left, suckling twins, flower on wolf's shoulder formed by 4 dots, two stars above. Mintmark RFQ


Imperial Rome
Constantine I, r. 307-337 A.D. (332-333 A.D.)
Arles mint, AE3, 17.7mm x 1.9 grams
Obv.: VRBS ROMA, Helmeted bust of Roma left
Rev.: She-wolf standing left suckling twins; two stars above, three-armed branch in upper center; mintmark SCONST


Imperial Rome
Constantine I, r. 307-337 A.D. (332-333 A.D.)
Trier Mint, AE3, 17.25mm x 3 grams
Obv.: URBS ROMA, Roma bust left, helmet with plume, wearing imperial mantle and ornamental necklace
Rev.: She-wolf standing left suckling twins; two stars above, mintmark TRS Star
Ex Mysterious Cointalk Secret Santa (Thanks, SS!)

 

the fam...






and the fam coin...

Varhran II (274-293 AD)
AR Drachm 28 mm x 4.18 grams
Uncertain mint
Obverse: Crowned winged bust of Varhran II, Queen Shapurdukhtak wearing Griffin head crown, vis-a vis bust of Varathragna wearing Horse head Crown. Pahlavi Script -Varhran King of Kings of Iran and Aniran
Reverse: Two Crowned attendants flanking Zoroastrian Fire alter. Diadem symbol in upper left field.
Ref: Gobl SN IXv/2 (plate IV 64v.)

 

Have not been in the Colosseum yet, but have been with @KIWITI that have been in the Colosseum ... cleaning coins and with a beer obviously

 

Nice! I hope I can have a cool time like this with one of you guys someday

 

See, I knew I was related to someone (semi) famous!!!

 

little noob is becoming a big boy noob!

i haven't been to the colosseum, but i have been with bing, who has been to the colosseum.



this is me at a rush concert in 2012.



here's another couple of junky coins i picked up in a lot recently, one with a funky die break...



and a magnenetius...

 

Sharing a beer!! and a LRBC!!