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

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by stevex6, Mar 22, 2014.

  1. akeady

    akeady Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  2. Avatar

    Guest User Guest



    to hide this ad.
  3. Packrat

    Packrat Well-Known Member

    Thanks so much. Sorry I don't have a weight. I appreciate your help.
     
    akeady likes this.
  4. Black Friar

    Black Friar Well-Known Member

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

    Attached Files:

    Alegandron and +VGO.DVCKS like this.
  5. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Gotta post a favorite tune!
     
    Voldemort and +VGO.DVCKS like this.
  6. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

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


    Recent auction buy.
    2272912_1634544062.jpg
     
  7. SammyMann

    SammyMann Member

    +VGO.DVCKS likes this.
  8. Black Friar

    Black Friar Well-Known Member

    Maybe not a tune but one of my many favorites is Beethoven"s 9th. Da Da Da Da etc.
     
    +VGO.DVCKS likes this.
  9. Heliodromus

    Heliodromus Well-Known Member

    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.

    RIC-82b.jpg
     
  10. Black Friar

    Black Friar Well-Known Member

    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.
     

    Attached Files:

    +VGO.DVCKS, Alegandron and Broucheion like this.
  11. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

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



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

    [​IMG]
    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.
     
  12. +VGO.DVCKS

    +VGO.DVCKS Well-Known Member

    ...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.
     
    Alegandron likes this.
  13. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    This song needs more listeners.



    And this board needs more grazing horses.

    [​IMG]
    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.
     
    ancientone, Alegandron, TIF and 5 others like this.
  14. akeady

    akeady Well-Known Member

    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


    [​IMG]

    ATB,
    Aidan.
     
  15. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member



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

    20211213_205356.jpg

    And dig that "Foxy Lady" outro!!
     
  16. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    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 CONCORDIA standing denarius type 3 hairstyle.jpg
    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.
     
  17. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

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

    GENGHIS KHAN:

    upload_2022-1-1_19-29-48.png
    Mongols
    -Ghazna mint Khwarezm
    Genghis Khan
    1206-1227 CE
    AE Jital
    Islamic
    RARE - "only The Just Khan" in title
    Album 1969 Tye 329

     
  18. akeady

    akeady Well-Known Member

    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 :D



    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

    [​IMG]
    [​IMG]
     
  19. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    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."

    [​IMG]
    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.
     
    ancientone, +VGO.DVCKS, TIF and 3 others like this.
  20. GinoLR

    GinoLR Well-Known Member

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

    normal_Sass3.jpg
    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.

     
  21. +VGO.DVCKS

    +VGO.DVCKS Well-Known Member

    Brilliant coin and brilliant music, @Alegandron.
    No coins --Drat-- but this is one of my favorite music movies.
     
    Alegandron and Roman Collector like this.
Draft saved Draft deleted

Share This Page