Ancients => Dionysos & Dionysos => Grapes in yo Thrace!!

This Maroneia stater is a recent purchase of mine. The reverse grapes could be a touch nicer but the obverse is the best I've found:

 

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=> yah, I should have known!! (well played, Mr. Bond)



That coin is absolutely amazing, AJ ...

=> that fricken sheep symbol is off-the-hook!! (ummm, or is it a sheepdog?)

... either way, that is my new AJ-favourite!! (congrats)

man, even the grapes are outstanding!!

 

+1

 

Santa Claus?

 

Honestly though ... it gets pitch-black-dark at 4 pm and it's colder than a well digger's undies!!

25 years and counting ... thank God I'm the guy that can find really cool things as well

I never have to leash my dogs => I can walk along a beautiful riverside trail all year long with my two friends jogging and sniffing as we go ...

I know almost everybody when I go to Walmart and Safeway on Saturday (good and bad, obviously) ... but you do get that "hometown feelin'"

I get paid lots => nobody else wants to work up here, right ... it does allow me a bit of coin-cash (bonus)

I met my sweet wife up here ... amazingly, her Dad was born in Portugal, but she was born here (she even knows how to speaks Portuguese, because there is a whole bunch in the same boat) ... it's awesome ... there is a sub-culture, combined with a small-town mentality

=> yah, which equals a whole lot of parties!! (your son is marrying who? ... well then we need a party!!)

OBVIOUS TRADEOFF => we go to Boston Pizza on date-night!! (small-town disadvantages are culture, costs, etc)

... oh well ...

Cheers (I'm happy and I walked my dogs this afternoon, baby-sat the godchild, watched/snuggled a movie) ... live is what it is, right?

cheers

 

By golly, you've got an ancient Pekingese there.

 

80s F here! Ahahaha!

 

It's almost as cold here at 26F/-3C.

 

Brrr, Daryl ... I feel ya

Yah, we've actually had a very sweet November so far (knock-on-wood) ... it's kinda like we stole a month away from Father-winter (I guess it all evens-out?)

... Ohio, eh? (I guess I knew that) ...

Bengals rock, or you don't give a poop?

Cheers, either way (you're a good coin-head, my friend)

 

Recently acquired alot of these Thasos tets. These are the two I think I will keep.

The original!

Beautiful Celtic design!!

 

Jango => born and raised in Florida, eh? ...... you would die in a week up here (do you remember the scene where Luke Skywalker had to slit-open the big mammal and crawl inside ... umm, or maybe it was Hans?)

=> either way my friend => they teach us that move on day-1

 

nice coins, Noob ... Hi

 

What up Steve? Same to you!!

 

Curious? => what's the temp in Connecticut today?

 

right now its a drizzly 8 deg.C

 

As I sit here, in front of my PC, reading this fine thread, with a glass of cheap Sutter Home merlot in hand, it seems an especially appropriate time to post this most appropriate coin.

Thasos, Island of Thrace,
ca. 190 - 150 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm (16.9 gm.; 33 mm.). Obv.: Head of Dionysos wearing ivy-wreath right.
Rev.: HPAKΛEOYΣ ΣΩTHPOΣ / ΘAΣIΩN. Youthful Herakles standing three-quarters left, head left, holding draped lion's skin and club; before, M monogram.
Reference: SNG Oxford 3677; SN Delepierre 839.

 

Nice ... that's kinda like my early years on the West Coast ... drizzly winter months

Again, I realize that living where I do is a nasty thing (temp-wise), but do wanna know a fact?

Because it's so cold where I live, there is seldom clouds ... so I get clear-pretty-skies for most of the winter ...

Okay sure, that translates into bone-chilling-cold temps!! ...

Question: do you want pretty, or do you want rainy?

Cheers?

 

Nice => that's a great coin Bannon ... sweet!!