Ancient => Heinz-57 => It has Trajan, an Eagle, a Club, a River-God and even Tyche!

Yea- about that, Mommy doesn't want him handling the ancient coins because they are "dirty" have "lead in it" and people in antiquity did not wash their hands. Ugh.

 

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Really?

 

Funny thing is that modern coins/ bills are as dangerous or even more dangerous as the ancient coins...

 

Probably.

 

Depending where you are, this is definitely true...


Sad, isn't it?

 

For the record, I don't carry a wallet ... but ummm, I keep change in my "mansupial-pouch" ...



Kids => don't ever put coins in your mouth!!

 

Good looking coin, its got tons of stuff on that coin, and I mean good things.

 

I would definitely agree ancient silver and gold is safer than currency nowadays. Currency is pretty gross actually.

 

Ummm, didn't one of you dudes state that ancient coins were often carried in people's mouths? (the small ones I'm guessing ... yah, I doubt that Philopators were carried in this manner!!?)

:foot-mouth:

 

I realize that many do not accept the evidence of Aristophanes regarding carrying small coins in the mouth but I will point out that comic plays are probably a great deal more likely to carry such evidence than histories. I believe there are two places where the practice is at least alluded to. One is in the Birds where a character is so amazed when he sees a beautiful bird fly over that he opens his mouth looking up in awe and loses the money he had planned to use to pay the miller for grinding his flour. The other escapes me now but I recall the gist of the story was that a character was so afraid that he would be robbed that he swallowed his money when he heard a loud noise. I want to say it was Frogs but it has been a long time since I ready these things so that is probably no more than a stab in the dark.

When I was a kid and silver coins really were silver we used to joke about old timers biting coins to see if they were genuine. Lead would bite worse than silver but less than gold. By the time I was born, no one was biting gold except in old comedy cowboy movies.

EUELPIDES
By Zeus! 'tis what I did myself one day on seeing a kite; butat the moment I was on my knees, and leaning backwards[1] with mouth agape, I bolted an obolus and was forced to carry my bag home empty. [2]

f[1] To look at the kite, who no doubt was flying high in the sky.
f[2] As already shown, the Athenians were addicted to carrying small coins in their mouths. -- This obolus was for the purpose of buying flour to fill the bag he was carrying

 

Now I know that this is nowhere near evidence of anything but the dents in Athena's cheek on this obol look like tooth marks to me. This coin is 2000 years older than Louis Pasteur so the idea of spitting out your payment when shopping would not have struck the man on the street as gross as it does today.
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From Project Guttenburg

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3013/3013-h/3013-h.htm

EUELPIDES
By Zeus! 'tis what I did myself one day on seeing a kite; but at the moment I was on my knees, and leaning backwards[1] with mouth agape, I bolted an obolus and was forced to carry my bag home empty. [2]

f[1] To look at the kite, who no doubt was flying high in the sky.
f[2] As already shown, the Athenians were addicted to carrying small coins in their mouths. -- This obolus was for the purpose of buying flour to fill the bag he was carrying

 

"Chorus:
Both are pure metal and used all over Greece and by the rest of the world, but we don’t use them at all and, instead, we work with these useless copper coins, which we’ve only just minted a day or two ago with the worse possible stamp! That’s what we do with our citizens, too.
Chorus:
Here we have good men and true, just and honourable and good, all raised in the wrestling schools and choruses and the arts and yet we treat them like ****, yet, for our every need, we only use these… these coppers, these red-headed foreigners, the slyest of the sly, the very last migrants, those which this city would never before stoop to use even as vermin poison!"

Looking for the mouth quote, I ran across the above from Frogs which is believed by some (dreamers like me) to refer to the officially issued fourrees of about 405 BC which is the date of Frogs.

 

That's awesome ... thanks Doug (man, it's kinda like ancient CSI) ...

=> the biter was identified by his dental records ... Egad, it was Elagabalus!!


Yah, the thought of putting coins in my mouth makes me a bit ill (ummm, but sadly I definitely recall doing it when I was a kid, because my mouth gets all tingley and I can remember that metallic taste ... arrrgghh, the saliva is building-up as I'm typing!!)

 

Accidentally swallowing your coins is bad ..... but not nearly as bad as trying to get them back!!!

=> man, that is when slaves really would have earned their keep, eh?

 

Ithought i seen this coin before, Steve awesome, nice big coin with full details, Anoob, that's awesome as well, chunky, very nice..:thumb::thumb:

 

Ummm, maybe in your dreams, ya ol' West Coast Sockeye!!





Just jokes ... thanks for the coin compliments, Eng!!

Cheers, brother

 

I'm not a oncorhynchus nerka.. i'm more like a hippolglossus stenolepis..

 

=> You're a good ol' bottom-feeder, eh? (ahahaha, yup that's perfect)