Ancients => Post your Favourite coin and *Favourite tune*

It's probably an Alexander III ("The Great") drachm or maybe hemidrachm.
What's the weight? 4g or slightly over would be a drachm.

It might be Price 1379A:

http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.1379A

ATB,
Aidan.

 

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Thanks so much. Sorry I don't have a weight. I appreciate your help.

 

So many coins, so many favs. Here are a couple.

 

Gotta post a favorite tune!

 

I'll bite.
I have to admit that before I saw this video I thought it was Grace Slick singing.


Recent auction buy.

 

I like Ike! Couldn't find my Ho Chi Lincoln.... Favorite song https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=I've+got+everything+Sam+mann

 

Maybe not a tune but one of my many favorites is Beethoven"s 9th. Da Da Da Da etc.

 

Cool. Has kind of a Haka-like feel to it.

Here's Mongoloian throat singing in it's most stripped down form. I've watched this video dozens of times.



Seeing as the rules demand a coin, here's Constantine on RIC VI Aquileia 82b, doing his best to channel Ghengis Khan and ride down some enemies.

 

The Fifth ain't too shabby either. As a matter of keeping current I'm listening to Rachmoninoff's piano concertto number 2, aka The Rach.

 

R.I.P., Terence "Astro" Wilson.



Here's a wine-themed coin in his honor.


Septimius Severus, AD 193-211.
Roman AR Denarius, 3.22 g, 16.5 mm, 11 h.
Rome Mint, AD 194.
Obv: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP III, laureate head, right.
Rev: LIBERO PATRI, Liber standing facing, head left, cloak over left shoulder, holding oenochoe and thyrsus; at feet left, panther standing left, catching drips from the jug.
Refs: RIC 32; BMCRE 64-65; Cohen 301; RCV 6307; Hill 84.

 

...Are you sure that isn't the Fifth?
...Because the 9th really is my favorite Beethoven. Especially for the opening movement, with all that quiet, almost proto-Impressioniste atmospheric music, ...and then, BAM! BAM! BAM! Always reminds me of the beginning of Hendrix's live reading of "Machine Gun" on Band of Gypsys [sic]. Sombre, slightly ominous but otherwise fairly formulaic rhythm & blues, then Hendrix's machine-gun guitar riff, complemented by Buddy Miles' machine-gun drumming.
Back to Beethoven's 9th, I used to have a cassette of some major orchestra in Berlin doing it live. It was released within a year or two of the fall of the Wall, and the atmosphere was absolutely electric. You could feel as if big stuff was happening, at least in the public mood.

 

This song needs more listeners.



And this board needs more grazing horses.


Troas, Alexandria, 3rd-2nd c. BC.
Greek Æ 13.5 mm, 2.20 g, 11 h.
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo, right.
Rev: AΛEΞAN above horse grazing left, monogram beneath, thunderbolt in exergue.
Refs: Sear 4028; BMC 17.10,18-20; SNG Cop 81-82; SNG von Aulock 7546.

 

I saw a mention of World Party today and wandered into YouTube - this was great in the 80s and now seems prophetic - "Ship Of Fools":



Ack! - the video doesn't play outside of YouTube - here's the audio alone:



And... here's a ship

Denarius of Sextus Pompey
Gens: Pompeia
Moneyer: Q. Nasidius
Obv.: NEPTVNI - Bare head of Pompey the Great right; trident to right; below, dolphin right
Rev.: Q. NASIDIVS - Galley right; star to upper left
Mint: Massilia (ca 44-43 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.47g / 19mm / -
References:

• HCRI 235
• RSC 28 (Pompeia)
• Sydenham 1350
• Crawford 483/2

Acquisition: Numismatik Naumann Online Auction Auction 44 #861 8-Aug-2016




ATB,
Aidan.

 

"You gave me loving in the palm of my hand ..."



And dig that "Foxy Lady" outro!!

 

Anyone remember this one?



And the last coin I received in 2021 -- came in yesterday's mail. It doesn't look like much, but I have my reasons that acquiring it feels like heaven.

Faustina Jr, AD 147-175.
Roman AR denarius, 3.12 g, 18.7 mm, 6 h.
Rome, c. Autumn-late AD 151.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVG ANTONINI AVG PII FIL, bare-headed and draped bust, right; Beckmann type 3 hairstyle.
Rev: CONCORDIA standing facing, head right, gathering up skirt and holding cornucopiae.
Refs: RIC 500b(6); BMCRE 1078-79; Cohen 44, Sear 4703; Strack 500; CRE 163.
Notes: RIC erroneously describes the obverse legend as reading FAVSTINAE AVG ANTONINI AVG PII FIL; this is corrected by BMCRE 4.​

 

@Heliodromus inspired me. I have always liked Mongolian Throat Singing... cool, unusual music, but fun to hear a few tunes!

GENGHIS KHAN:


Mongols
-Ghazna mint Khwarezm
Genghis Khan
1206-1227 CE
AE Jital
Islamic
RARE - "only The Just Khan" in title
Album 1969 Tye 329

 

I bought a Waterboys double CD album just before Christmas and was going to post a song from it - "Postcard from the Celtic Dreamtime". When I looked on YouTube to see what videos were available, I saw that the official band video features an aerial flyby of Dun Aengus on the Aran Islands. Which is interesting, as the other time I featured the Waterboys on this thread, I included a photo' of this fort with "Don't Bang The Drum", an 80s song from the group.

YouTube is a trap for me - the video ended and segued into "Long Strange Golden Road", which is certainly the best Waterboys song since the 1980s. Here's a live version of that from Glastonbury



With lyrics including:

"She was Aphrodite, Helen, Thetis,
Eve among the satyrs
She was Venus in a v-neck sweater
She was all that ever mattered"

there's plenty of scope for classical coins to include!

I like to think that if Venus is wearing a V-neck sweater here, just it's off the flan.

Moneyer: Licinius Crassus
Obv.: S. C - Laureate and diademed bust of Venus draped right
Rev.: P. CRASSVS M. F. - Female figure standing before her horse which she holds by bridle, shield and cuirass at her feet
Mint: Rome (55 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 4.02g / 19mm / 2h
References:

• RSC 18 (Licinia)
• Sydenham 929
• Crawford 430/1

Acquisition: Roma Numismatics Online Auction May Auction #1255 21-May-2013

 

If coins could talk, I wonder if they'd express regret or sadness about aging. This sestertius, for example, is bereft of the orichalcum luster it had when it left the mint and first went out in the world. Perhaps it would be wistful for its once brassy surface, now lost to time, yet come to embrace the greenness it developed in the course of its patination over the centuries. As Bette Davis' pillow used to read, "Old age ain’t no place for sissies." It's quite a chemical transformation. It's not that easy being green.



This sestertius arrived in the mail earlier this month and it's lovely in its viridity. I can't stop thinking about its smooth, glossy, green patina. I like to think when it looks in the mirror, it says to itself, "I'm green and it'll do fine. It's beautiful, and I think it's what I want to be."


Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.67 g, 31.1 mm, 7 h.
Rome, mid 152- autumn 154.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG·FIL·, bare-headed and draped bust right.
Rev: CONCORDIA S C, Concordia seated left, holding flower and resting elbow on cornucopiae set on globe under chair.
Refs: RIC 1374a; BMC 2175-76; Cohen 57; RCV 4713; Strack 1315.

 

Funny thread, indeed...
Associate a coin with a tune... Why not? Here is my contribution:


Iran, Sassanian Empire, Yazdagard I (399-420), AR dirham, Bishapur or court mint.

It makes me think of Borodin's Steppes of Central Asia. I had this tune playing in my head when I was visiting the Persian rooms in the Louvre.

 

Brilliant coin and brilliant music, @Alegandron.
No coins --Drat-- but this is one of my favorite music movies.