Sestertius Rave Party!

Thanks for letting me know! I've been out of touch with popular music since the Lindy Hop, you know!

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Am I obsessed with this thread? I've never really been much of a dancer (as Paul sings in "Helter Skelter") but I just keep coming back to the rave... a "British Association" torch with a Gaul (the famous Obelix) dancing with a torch:


Faustina I Æ Dupondius
3rd Phase, part 2: wedding of Faustina II to M. Aurelius
(c. 154-155 A.D.) Rome Mint
DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right / AVGVSTA S-C, Ceres standing left holding short torch in raised right hand and corn-ears in lowered left hand.
RIC III, 1171 type 1; Cohen 89.
(12.71 grams / 26 mm)
eBay Sep. 2020 (Estonia)
"British Association" coins were Roman as and dupondius issues from Hadrian to Antoninus Pius for Britain. This conclusion from D. R. Walker, Roman Coins from
the Sacred Springs at Bath. See CT Sep. 24, 2021, RC via Curtis Clay "The Supply of Bronze Coins to Britain..." for date, etc. Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 149 1989 p. 215

 

Haha, it's a generation-thing I guess. I grew up with trance and so on, especially in the later 90's and early 00's it was very popular here in the Netherlands. I can imagine when my kids are all grown up I'll have similar talks with them

 

@Roman Collector
@Romancollector



It wasn't until I happened to look at this snippet that I realized you guys were two different people. I thought you were just one person that liked flip-flopping icon pictures. Guess I should pay more attention to spaces and capitalizations

 

BTW, where is @Romancollector? I haven't seen him around lately.

 

My kind of party, almost as good as the Rave party in Berkely I was at in 1990,

 

I'm definitely here!

Since I couldn't find a gif to complement my previous sestertius, I will post another sestertius which I just won along with corresponding dancing gifs.

Sestertius of Otacilia Severa with Hippo reverse

Photo by Naville Numismatics

 

A dancing hippo! Somebody stop me...goats from Macedon:









I did not have a pig handy, so if anybody wants to tag in on this, feel free:

 

I love all these dancing animals!!! (And their corresponding coins, of course!)

 

I like techno/trance and some other related genres. Used to listen with headphones to streaming trance while I was concentrating on something I needed to focus on. It's also useful background music while coding.

 

Not long ago my 30-year-old hipster niece was telling me about an electronic music festival she had attended. She couldn't quite believe it when I explained that I had been into the underground rave scene for a time when she was just a baby.

 

.i'm afraid i cheated on putting a gif up... i was happy wif dancing cats, hillbillies and DEVO...sorry

 

Here is DJ Victory mixing a little and scratching the VIC AVG disc


Lucius Verus AD 161-169. Rome

Sestertius Æ
32 mm, 20,98 g
AD 163 - AD 164
RIC III Marcus Aurelius 1397
Obv: L AVREL VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS, head of Lucius Verus, laureate, right / Rev: TR P IIII IMP II COS II S C, Victory, winged, half-draped, standing right, fixing to a palm-tree with left hand

 

C'mon 'please', I need a baby sitter, the concert starts in 30 minutes!!!!!

 

Here's a dubious purchase, my first sestertius. Not really sure why I bought it ... probably because of the funky chicken.



DIVUS MARCUS AURELIUS
struck under Commodus
Sestertius
Rome mint
27 mm, 22.8 gm
Obv: DIVVS M ANTONINVS PIVS, bare head right
Rev: CONSECRATION / S-C, eagle with spread wings on globe, facing, head left
Ref: RIC 654 (Commodus)?

 

Roman Imperial Navy gone wild​

 

Your first sestertius? O, you are in trouble now. They are addictive. At least for me. That is really nice - not dubious at all. I'll tell you why you bought it: because it is awesome!

Along the same lines (but lower grade), I just got a DIVVS Antoninus Pius sestertius, but this one showing his funeral pyre (or the Ustrinum Antoninorum):


Antoninus Pius Æ Sestertius
(158-159 A.D.)
Rome Mint
[ANT]ONINVS AVG [PI]VS PP TR P XXII, laureate head right / VOTA [SVSCEP]TA DEC III, COS IIII in exergue, S C, emperor standing left, sacrificing with patera over tripod.
RIC 1010; BMCRE 2068.
(22.91 grams / 31 mm)
eBay Sept. 2021

A very disappointing Google image search for a dancing/funeral pyre gif...I thought there would be a lot of them, but dancing goats are much easier to find. Not much of a dance, unfortunately:



Dancing at a funeral however -

 

Yes... from 2013. I've bought some since. Not many though... provincials took over my interest . I do like sestertii though.

 

Great post, @Roman Collector




​

 

Pietas put your hands up in the air.
Trebonianus Gallus Ae Sestertius 251-252 AD Obv. Bust right laureate draped and cuirassed. Rv. Pietas standing left raising both hands. to left altar. RIC 117a 14.17 grms 29 mm Photo by W. Hansen Either Pietas is enjoying herself or she just got busted. Oh dear.