Mystery ancients

Certainly worth way more than $100.

The picture with the group of six Republican denarii look to be these:

Top Row, left to right: M. Carbo, Flaminius Chilo, Anonymous
Bottom Row, left to right: Octavian, Vibius Pansa, Terentius Lucanus

You can click the links above to see examples of the type from CNG sale records so you can make a closer comparison with what you have.

 

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Good for him.

Shame on the pawn shop.

 

Lord M, last year my wife bought me a copy of Allen Carr's Stop Smoking Now. I tried all sorts things prior, like the patch and gum etc. Lots of people have said that they simply read the book and stopped cold turkey - needless to say I was extremely skeptical, but I recognize the power of ideas in the written word so I gave it an honest chance. To my surprise, I smoked my last cigarette while reading the book and have not smoked in almost a year - and have no cravings whatsoever. It's worth a shot.

 

I quit smoking in 1986. At that time, nicotine gum was new and was by prescription. I used one box and that was that.

Several years later I fell off the wagon. Nicotine gum went OTC and I bought a box and stopped smoking... but I didn't stop the gum.

Decades. I chewed it for decades. I tried quitting in every imaginable way: cold turkey, hypnosis, accupuncture... but kept buying the gum. Several weeks ago I had surgery and really needed to be off nicotine because it impairs healing. The general anesthesia was rough and I didn't want any gum when I woke up. I've been nicotine-free since then and hope it stays that way! On the down side, I feel mentally sluggish

 

Try a brisk walk every day. I walk for about two miles, sometimes three unless the weather is really crappy. It's amazing how it clears your head and gets the cogs turning.

 

When I quit, I lived every day with an open pack of cigarettes in my pocket and when I felt the urge I would "smoke" an unlit cigarette (kinda like a pacifier). The pack of cigarettes was a safety net. I always new that if the urge was too great, I I had cigarettes at hand. It worked for me.

 

What's wrong with chewing gums? I envy you Tif. I still smoke 2 packs of cigarettes of those filtered luckies. Fortunately, I got used to the" tar - guard" filter above this.
It works and helps me a lot.

 

Taking in pure nicotine (via gum, patch, or lozenge) is less harmful than smoking but it is still bad. Nicotine contributes to loss of bone density and impairs wound healing, among other things. At least you don't have the inhaled carcinogens with the gum.

I hope you become motivated to quit, 7C... you'll live longer and will be healthier .

 

Thank you very much for your concern and your advice. I hope I become happily motivated to quit some day. Cheers..

 

I'm a certified addiction counselor but I can't give any advice. I've never smoked but I confess that I'm a caffeine addict. Three Red Bulls before lunch time.

 

Coffee is tax free. It's considered as a food. This sort of addiction is for angels.

 

Try your best to resist the temptation to put more than one coin in a photo. If the coins are of any decent quality, they deserve to be unique photographic subjects - it's more of an exponential than a geometric increase in difficulties of things like the lighting and focus as you add coins to a photo.
Just because there is room in the frame doesn't mean the extra subject(s) will photograph well when squeezing them in.

 

Wow guys. I quit in April 2000. The motivation was the neuro said I had the bones of an 80 year old woman and had ruptured 2 discs & herianted 2 more all in a row in my neck.
If I continued smoking they'd take the bone chips from my hip. If I quit I could get donor bones.
I chose donor, then a titanium plate holds my neck together.

@Deacon Ray I had a stroke about 5 years ago. After I came to a after I think a day or 2 the first thing they asked was if I drank those energy drinks. Yeah they're that bad for you.
Fortunately I guess I never really drank them & it wasn't the cause.

 

Thank you, Smojo! Good time for me to start practicing what I preach.