Ancient Coins Depicting Sports (Super Bowl Thread... :-)

I cheered neither, but really enjoyed an incredible game.

 

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Oh, and @TypeCoin971793 , Dude, it WAS better than a cemetary!

 

i'm not into football either, but that was one hell of a game.

 

Well, I'm not looking forward to my permanent resting place in a cemetary, but, hey, if it's as exciting as that Super Bowl, maybe I won't dread it so much.

 

I was in the marching band at the GT vs UK game at the Taxslayer Bowl. The same thing kind-of happened, but we still managed to pull out a win. I think I might have cracked a smile once. I was completely unenthused about being there. Too many people, not enough freedom, no interest in the sport, and I couldn't leave.

I find walking through cemeteries more enjoyable because it is beautiful, exercise, peaceful, solitary, and a connection with history. I get none of that going to / watching a football game. But then again, I am a weird antisocial depressed kid.

 

It was ironic. I was surrounded by more people than ever before in my life at that football game, but I had never felt so alone.

 

Does stabbing barbarians to death with a spear count as a sport? If not then it should
If it does then I got a ton of coins to post.

 

This is obviously not the place, but have you ever talked to someone, anyone, about how you feel?

 

Not sure about the FH types being a sport, but there are coins depicting gladiatorial events. Sadly, I don't have any. How about lion wrestling?

TARAS, CALABRIA
AR Diobol
OBVERSE: Head of Athena in crested helmet left decorated with Skylla
REVERSE: Herakles kneeling right, strangling lion
Struck at Taras 380-334 BC
1.2g, 11mm
Vlasto 1316

 

Looks like Herakles is giving him a hug but the lion just isn't having any of it lol. My dog was sometimes like that (again, hugging, not strangling). Interesting type, now I have to be on the look out for it!

 

Here is an ancient version of the Lombardi trophy--a prize urn on a tripod.

24 mm. 10.92 grams.
Valerian (253-260), struck at Anazarbus, Cilicia (about 30 miles north of [inland from] the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea)
ANAZAPB MHTROΠOΛ [Anazarbus, Metropolis]
with
ETBOS = year BOS = 272 = AD 253/4
SNG Copenhagen VI Cilicia 58, Sear Greek Imperial --, BMC Cilicia --

 

Yes

 

OMG! I went to bed after Gaga´s... I'm afraid I've missed the best!!! Congratulations to the winners!!!



(Kricheldorf | Auction 49 | 20 - 21 February 2017, lot 65)

 

"We’ll always have Ancients. We didn’t have, we, we lost it until you came to CoinTalk"...

 

I was hoping to see some Greek wrestlers or slingers. I don't have any. I missed the whole Super Bowl - game, half time show, commercials, etc. I heard Lady Gaga put on a wonderful performance and the game was exciting.

 

Rag-n-rock => you're confusing me with your bold blue text ... I clicked-on this thread and thought that I'd gotten super hammered last night and started ranting about the Super-Bowl!!



... oh well, I like your style ...

Ummm, sports coins, eh? ... hmmm?

=> Hey, how 'bout HORSE SOCCER .... oh, or is it European Horse Football?



Celtic Gaul, Senones AE18 Cast Potin
100-50 BC




This place rocks!

 

Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Emesa. Elagabalus AE22. Pythian games issue.
Obv: AVT K M A ANTWNINOC (or similar), radiate head right.
Rev: MHTPO K EMICWN PYQIA HLIA, prize urn on table between two palm branches.

The Pythian Games (Delphic Games) were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held every four years at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi. They were held in honor of Apollo two years after (and two years before) each Olympic Games, and between each Nemean and Isthmian Games. They were founded sometime in the 6th century BCE, and, unlike the Olympic Games, also featured competitions for art and dance. The art and dance competitions pre-dated the athletic portion of the games, and were said to have been started by Apollo after he killed Python and set up the oracle at Delphi. Otherwise, the athletic events were the same as the Olympic Games. A four-horse chariot race was held in a hippodrome in the plain, not far from the sea, in the place where the original stadium was sited. -Wikipedia

 

I kinda like THIS denarius as a Sport:

We think our modern sports are tough...

Roman Republic
42 BCE
Moneyer: L Livineius Regulus (one of 4 Moneyers that year! A quattuorvirate)
AR Denarius 3.7g, 19mm
Obv: Bare head of the praetor L. Livineius Regulus right
Rev: Gladiatorial scene; in foreground, one man attacks lion with spear; in back ground, second man with shield and sword attacks panther; on left, wounded boar; in exergue, L. REGVLVS
Ref: Sear 489; Crawford 494/30; Syd. 1112
Comment: bankers mark and scratch on obverse.

I wonder if those are Elvis lambchops as a banker's mark?

Or possibly Clem Kadiddlehopper chewing on a piece of grass, ruminating about the day...

 

Here is an ancient sport for you-
.....
Biga of mules (an apene) driven right by seated charioteer.

SICILY, Messana
AR Tetradrachm
480-461 BC
17.21 grams, 25 mm.
Obv: Biga of mules (an apene) driven right by seated charioteer. Nike above crowning mules.
Rev: Hare bounding to right with spray of olive beneath. MEΣΣA.ИIOИ. (retrograde Ns)
Grade: a nicely toned Good Fine coin with claims to aVF.
Other: Similar to Sear 843 & 847. SNGANS.314. From Pegasi Jan 2014.
.....
Although I was not personally at the first Olympic games, I understand that Anaxilas won the mule-biga race at the Olympic games of 484 or 480. This event is commemorated on the obverse of this tetradrachm.

 

Sitting is a sport, right?