Look at what i purchased today: Trajan Decius ant

Have you tried the lady's rooms at Target? I hear they're real nice.

 

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I see the problem...you forgot to wax your chest for the big day. Other than that, you are one handsome bride, Bing.

 

Oh jeez, where's the eye bleech?

 

Here's one with a weakly-struck VICTORIA AVG reverse:

 

A nice Ant. of Trajan Decius!
I very much like your '2016-end-of year-last-minute addition'. Nice portrait and toning.

Glad to hear you made it through 1st year of Law School!
It can well imagine how stressful that is. My eldest son is now on 3rd year Medical School and he is about to climb the walls (and so are his parents!)

I only have one coin of Trajan Decius, this semis with Mars on the reverse:

Trajan Decius. AD 249-251. Æ Semis (18mm, 2.82 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 249-250.
Obv: Laureate and cuirassed bust right
Rev: Mars standing left, holding shield set on ground and spear.
RIC IV 128. Good VF, green patina, minor marks.

 

Lawyer => Wow, congrats on snagging that great OP-winner ... oh "and" congrats on being a proud Grandparent to your recent fish-tank additions!! (ummm, Mollies are the black guppy-type fish, eh?)

Yah, I had to give-up smoking 9 or so years ago ... I was spending more on smoking than I was on coins, so it ended-up being a great decision (oh, but you look very Hefner-Playboy-esque with that pipe)

congrats again on your new OP-coin

 

Mollies come in yellow, orange/red, white, black, dalmatian, and molted. They also grow bigger than guppies...a typical molly can grow to 3-4 inches depending on the variety of molly they happen to be (and some breeds have fancy tails or big pot bellied). A guppy only grows to half the size to 2/3 the size of a molly.

Mollies also give live birth. No eggs like other fish, the baby are born straight from the mother and ready to fend for themselves (even if really tiny). I believe guppies also give live birth, as do platies and swordtails, but generallh most aquarium fish are egg laying and not livebearers.

 

@stevex6 I should add that don't let the molly talk make you think that's all I have in my two 20 gallon aquariums. My favorite fish is an albino bristlenose pleco, and I have some giant danios, two corey catfish, a bunch of freshwater miniature shrimps, and a few species of snail, as well as a Betta fish in a separate 3 gallon aquarium.

But I think my favorite by far are 3 genetically modified danios that came from a line of fish dating back to some freakish 1990s experimentation mixing fish DNA with jellyfish DNA to create a glowing neon colored fish. I think they are illegal to own in many (probably most) countries around the world, so thank God for the USA where I can legally own freekish mutant fish and AK-47s.

 

Those are pretty cool - I saw them at the aquarium store the other week. They will be my next denizens, except my tank is full at the moment. Danios seem to live a long time - years.

 

Like coin collecting, the hobby of fish keeping 'developed' over the years and many of us did not like what was done to it. I had Mollies but prefered the wild, normal ones to the inbred mutants that were more popular.
It was worse with swordtails and angelfish but when salt water became relatively easy with the advent of good artificial salt and super filter systems people stared considering freshwater aquariums as worthless.

It is much like the coin hobby that went from appreciating coins that circulated to many people only interested in NCLT or bullion rounds not to mention the idea that being slabbed MS71 was necessary. Toward the end of my fish days we were threatened by the politically correct environmental factions as killers of species in the wild and responsible for such things as snakeheads taking over Florida (which may well have been true). Now marine aquarium keepers are being blamed for Lion fish spreading around the world. That, too, may be true. I could point out that fans of Shakespeare introduced the starling into the US so we might be better off realizing that humanity is the worst invention ever let loose on the earth and let it go at that. Soon coin collecting will be illegal as will fish keeping and reading books, each for its own set of sins. Consider the evidence that the main use for large denominations of cash is drug dealing, relocating species (or even variations of one species, for example humans) never ends well and reading Mark Twain or Harper Lee makes us racist. What hobby is left?

 

Interesting. Well, I'll gladly keep my mutant freshwater fish and plants. I could care less if some think them worthless, they bring me lots of enjoyment.

After a stressful day of work I find it relaxing to look at some of my ancient coins, and I find it just as relaxing to also sit in front of one of my tanks and stare at my fish going abut their business for a good 20-30 minutes. I could say the same about pipe smoking. Maybe that's why I picked these three things as hobbies, they are activities that tend to take the daily stress away.

 

I've had several fish-tanks during my life ... I had a very nice hexagonal/octagonal tank for approximately 10 years of my adult life ...

=> it went through shades of greatness, when it was swarming with fresh water "shark-like" winners ... then I went through my "Oscar-phase" (nasty fish!!) ... then I got cute, and I had probably 200 or 300 neons!! ... but after countless attempts of adding suckers, snails and changing the filter system a couple of times, my tank was best appreciated when I filled it full of $1 feeder goldfish, which seemed to be able to live several months without food or any cleaning of any sort!!!!



... yes, I haven't had a tank for several years now (maybe when I'm retired and have the time to make sure that it's kept clean and cool?)

Congrats again on your cool OP-coin and the fact that you seem to be loving your fish hooby, so that's cool too ...

Cheers, Lawyer ... I hope that you have a grand holiday season!!



WARNING .... Oscars eat everybody else!!

 

The only way I like taking care of fish:

 

Wow => hey, please remind me not to ask you to dog-sit my hounds!!

 

I don't eat fish. For some reason I get nauseous. Oysters, squid, calamari, octopus, sea horses, lobsters, and shrimp are OK, but I can't stand fish meat.

I guess I'm weird like that, but then you all already knew I was weird when I confessed two months ago that I have a phobia to butterflies. Those things are pure evil I tell you. Every time @panzerman posts pictures of his butterflies I break out in a sweat. I'm not even joking.

 

You are weird!!!!!

 

I've eaten dog when I was in Korea. Perhaps it is better for the hounds if you don't ask. Kidding. I love Larry just from the images.

 

Did the ЯЦSSIAИS hack Doug's account?

 

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A friend of mine back in the fish period was working on developing techniques of fish farming for the benefit of developing nations. He largely worked with a couple species of Tilapia. One was mossembica which a favorite in my aquarium. Today fish farming is much more complex because of pond escapees being invasive in many areas. At one point he was prevented from giving fish meal for food in starving areas because the practice then was not to clean the fish before drying. Everything is more complex than it was in 1970.

I ran across this Egyptian New Kingdom amulet on Wikipedia. I don't collect antiquities but if I did, I'd want this one.



To make this a better coin thread:
Maximinus I Anchialus, Thrace --- but not a species I know flanking a dolphin.