Eagle of Judaea

Very pleasant coins all round (and, frankly, I don't mind the car too much either)

A question occurs: it seems like the eagle is quite an infrequent visitor to Roman coins (as in, coins of the mint of Rome), especially if you discount the consecration issues. Which feels a little incongruous seeing as the eagle tends to be regarded as one of the key items of Roman imagery (the aquila of the legions, etc.). Has anybody ventured an explanation for this?

 

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It sounds a little like my first new car which was a YUGO. Terri-cloth upholstery I could hear the gasoline sloshing around under my seat when I came to a stop In the winter the door-locks would expand so that they couldn't be opened with the key. I had to climb in through the hatch-back many times I had a very rare model which had air conditioning and when you turned it on the car would decelerate by 10 mph

I'm not complaining though. It got me where I needed to go. Most of the time ​

 

We've all been there. The newer generations will never know what it is to drive a truly awful car, as even the worse cars today are nowhere near as bad as some of the stuff we got to experience.

My first car was a Geo Metro. At 1 Liter, 50 horsepower, the engines for those cars were probably repurposed lawnmower engines. The fit and finish was so poor that the body panels probably started to fall apart before the car ever left the factory. If you managed to get the car above 50MPH (depending on whether you had a light or heavy breakfast that morning), the thing shook like it wanted to come apart and the noise was almost deathening. The body panels fit so poorly that it is a miracle the whole thing didn't come apart at highway speeds. The 12 inch wheels were so thin that there was a real concern they could get stuck in a pothole.

Heck, one day I was making a U-Turn and my front passenger wheel actually came off and continued to travel on its own until it hit a traffic sign on the side of the road.

Driving that car you knew your knees were the accident crumple zones for the car, and side impact protection probably doubled when I was wearing a thick jacket.
Anyway, the end came swift when in 2004 it caught fire and burned down on the emergency lane at the Florida Turnpike, somewhere north of Fort Lauderdale.

 

My first car was a 1972 Plymouth Duster. 3 on the column, 198 cu in, slant 6. That car could run. It cost me $500.00 as a down payment and $68.00 a month for 36 months. After 6 years I traded it in on a Ford van. Wish I had that Duster now.