Approx 12' / 3.6M Metal Monolith found in Utah... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55056570?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[gnl.newsletters]-[headline]-[news]-[bizdev]-[isapi]&xtor=ES-213-[BBC News Newsletter]-2020November24-[top+news+stories] Hmmm...interesting. Stanley Kubrick would be pleased. Post your unusual ANCIENTs coins featuring monoliths, oddities, featuring cool, UNEXPLAINED, or unusual items. Campania CAPUA AE Semuncia 216-211 BCE Juno Xoanon Hannibal capital Italia SCARCE Xoanon: an Archaic wooden cult image of Ancient Greece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoanon Post your unusual ANCIENTs coins featuring monoliths, oddities, featuring cool, UNEXPLAINED, or unusual items.
Interesting story, @Alegandron! Now I have an "Also Sprach Zarathustra" earworm. The identity of the object on the ground at the emperor's feet on this AE3 of Procopius remains a mystery: Procopius, AD 365-366 Roman Æ centenionalis, 2.70 g, 20mm. Constantinople, AD 365-366. Obv: D N PROCO-PIVS P F AVG, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust left. Rev: REPARATI-O FEL TEMP, Procopius standing facing, head right, holding labarum in right hand, left resting on shield set on the ground; Chi-rho in upper right field and unidentified object in left at foot; CONSЄ• in exergue. Refs: RIC ix 17a.7; Cohen 8; RCV 19883. Notes: The small object at the feet of the emperor on the reverse has never been satisfactorily explained. Pearce (RIC ix, p. 215, 17 note) comments "The small indeterminate object is given by Cohen as 'seated captive.' Koblitz suggests a helmet. I have noted it as resembling the letter T, a mushroom, two small circles standing one above the other, a small circle standing on a pyramidal object, etc., but never 'seated captive' or 'helmet.'"
I am not sure I would ride along in a helicopter when the pilot was counting sheep. It seems like an accident waiting to happen.
I cracked up at: He was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!'. And I was like, 'What?'. And he's like, 'There's this thing back there - we've got to go look at it!'," Mr. Hutchings said. I, of course, immediately recognized the object in Utah as a modern, obvious, fake of this "coin" - easy to spot because the style, fabric and weight are so far off. Roman Republican, aes formatum, rough brick shape, ~5th-4th century BC, Central Italy (ex private collection ex Munich auction house 1990s) Obv: oxidized bronze Rev: oxidized bronze Size: 615g, 103 cubic cm.
Yeah, almost like a B-movie scene! LOL. I reckon the guy who built that is having a ball with all the media hype. Too funny.
I suspect this is the work of a contemporary artist such as James Turrell. https://medium.com/the-long-now-fou...works-and-monuments-of-deep-time-3a6d95d0ae6f
Wonderful idea and coins @Alegandron !!! As my CT pals know, I'm a Utahn. And can dispel the myth for you all, this "monolith" is NOT a recent find. We've been worshipping the motherboard godess for years. Now on to the unexplained coins... Say what you will about it being a fun design. This is clear cut string theory: Or this coin that was, assuredly, I'm told by @TIF herself, used to make waffles for tiny men... with LARGE appetites:
What a load of poo.......shades of 2001, a space odyssey. Not a 'close up' look at this anomaly? Nobody noticed this thing till someone went out 'counting sheep'? Bill Bixby's rolling in his grave.
I was forced to watch 2001 "a Space Oddity" when in school/ found it so boring, I fell asleep. Now, "The Thing" with Kurt Russell/ action packed/ made way more sense/ no falling asleep! Anyone watching, "Skinwalker Ranch" John Carpenter makes way better movies then Kubrick.