Ancients => Post your favourite ancient coin & your favourite meal (and drink)

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Ethiopian buffet?! Awesome!

 

I think for favorite coin, I'll have to go with my lighthouse tessera. Only numismatic representation of a lost structure? That's a winner.
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Food? That is much harder. For breakfast, it's a tie between a full English breakfast and a classic New Jersey taylor ham egg & cheese sandwich. For lunch, an enormous Mission-style burrito is a surefire winner. There are definitely the most options for dinner. My go-to favorite is a steak and kidney pie with a good pint, but a hot bowl of pho would work too!
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ROME. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161.
PB Tessera (22mm, 5.09 g, 11 h)
The Lighthouse of Portus
ANT
Rostowzew 64, fig. 2; Kircheriano 66
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I haven't been to the buffet yet, but I hear its good. Two meat dishes and a couple of veggie, unlimited injera.

 

For my favorite coin, I'll pick up Diana and Apollo. I don't know what the gods eat and drink. I'll eat rice crispies with milk and coffee for breakfast. For the rest I go for fried eggs, boiled potatoes, hamburger, yogurt ,cake , cola and fruits all the way.. Because I have very weak teeth, being a heavy smoker myself.

 

Hmmmm? ... well, I have been eating like a complete pig during the winter months (*burp*)

So today, my Mr. Spock and I decided to step-onto the scales and have a wee bit of a weight-loss challenge ...

=> I weighed-in at a rotund 213 pounds!! (not unlike Augustus Gloop, from Willie Wonka)

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... anyway ...

Arrrggghhh, but I still want to eat!! ... ummm, so "hopefully" I'll be able to exercise my way to victory?!!

=> so, tonight's dinner is Bacon-wrapped, chocolate cheese-balls ... followed-by 15 years of the stair-climber (that's kinda like climbing the ladder to Saturn)

Augustusgloopx6

 

Yeah, I've been on a diet since Jan 4. I am stepping in to give my niece away at her wedding on Mar 7th and she wants me to wear my uniform. Now mind you, I've been out of the service for 14 years. I understand the longer clothes hang in the closet the more they shrink. Well, you can just picture this porker trying to get into a uniform two sizes too small. So, I have since lost 24 pounds. You can also bet your bippy I plan to eat the biggest, juiciest hamburger I can find on the day after the wedding.

Back to coins. Today's favorite:

L. THORIUS BALBUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS THORIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Head of Juno wearing goat-skin headdress, acronym I. S. M. R. behind.
REVERSE: Bull charging right, F. above, L THORIVS below, BALBVS in exergue
Struck at Rome 105 BC
3.92g, 19mm
Cr 316/1, Sydenham 598, Thoria 1

 

Cheeseburgers
Ice tea/ Mtn Dew
and I'll pick Caracalla as my (ever changing) favorite

 

That's a hard one.
As far as drink goes; you can't go wrong with a bottle of Lambrusco Wine. Best served with Calamari
. As far as coins. This Solidus of Maurice Tiberius takes the cake.
4.12 grams!

 

I would have made a terrible Roman. Can't stand wine. Now brew.........

 

=> ahahahaha, oh my GOD!! ...

Man, I must be directly related to Dionysos?!! (wine rocks, my friend => "ROCKS")

 

I am the exact opposite Bing, I hate and I mean hate beer

 

=> ummmm okay, ya caught me!! => I love it "all" (hey, no judging!!)

 

How can anyone hate beer? Maybe bad beer, but good honest brew? Come-on....

 

I'm with MagMax. Yuck! Maybe there's a qualitative difference in taste perception between beer lovers and beer haters. I only like it in certain cooking/recipe applications.

 

There must a screw loose for you non beer drinkers. Wine states like vinegar and just a few sips makes my gums go numb. Must be the tannins contained in the wine.

 

Herdwick lamb roast with roast potatoes done in dripping and lashings of gravy. Cup of tea or glass chateauneuf du pape.

Current favourite coin:
Aureolus
Aureolus was a general of Gallienus, who commanded the new
cavalry corps. He allied himself with the Gallo-Roman emperor
Postumus, issuing antoninianii from the city of Milan, though
Postumus never conquered the region. His coins often have compact
die engraving, reverses noting Calvary, and are on thick, short
flans that those of Postumus from mints in Gaul. H e was executed
under Claudius II.



The green stuff is inactive and there appears to be some silvering remaining under the crud on the reverse.

 

All I drink is beer if I am given the choice.

 

Can any of you post a coin that refers to beer? Is there one? Grapes and Dionysos/Liber are common but there are fewer grains and none I know that are not equally interpreted as bread rather than beer.