Ancients => Post your Favourite coin and *Favourite tune*

I'm dying! Can't breathe! Haven't laughed this hard in months !



An equally ridiculous chicken (erm... eagle):


Marcus Aurelius
posthumous issue struck under Commodus in CE 180
sestertius; 27 mm, 22.8 gm. Rome
Obv: DIVVS M ANTONINVS PIVS, bare head right
Rev: CONSECRATIO / S-C, eagle with spread wings on globe, facing, head left
Ref: RIC 656 (Commodus)

 

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I REALLY DID LAUGH OUT LOUD!

 

A new Gallienus:


Gallienus, AD 253-268.
Roman billon antoninianus, 2.60 g, 19.6 mm, 5 h.
Rome, AD 267-268.
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head, right.
Rev: APOLLINI CONS AVG, centaur walking right, drawing bow; Z in exergue.
Refs: RIC 163; Göbl 735b; Cohen 72; RCV 10177; Hunter 95; Cunetio 1378.

 

LOL... that’s soooo good!

This one almost makes me want to start collecting Byzantine coins...



Almost.

 

I've picked up eight or nine of these Piso Frugi denarii now - Cr. 340/1 - here are a couple of the prettier ones:



On the music front, Microdisney are playing two more gigs - they re-formed to play 2 gigs in June 2018 after 30 years and now they are playing Dublin again in February, with a Cork gig to follow the next night - I'll go to the Dublin gig - probably the last time they'll play together!

Here's another from the June gig in Dublin - "High and Dry" - sweet music, dark lyrics



ATB,
Aidan

 

I want to know what the “Naughty Anegdote” was!!! People need to know...

 

I’m not sure if it’s properly “naughty”, but I believe it has to do with Byzantine princess and all-round overachiever Anna Komnene’s lament that her own gender suited her political ambitions less than possession of her frivolous husband’s male parts would have. This page, about half way down, recounts a bit of ancient gossip about how she expressed her frustration with him.

 

Sweet Victory, indeed!

 

I'm more into the heavier stuff but I just can't get this song out of my head.

 

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Vima Takto (Soter Megas).
Æ Tetradrachm, 21mm, 8.5g, 12h; c. AD 80-100.
Obv.: Radiate and diademed bust right, holding scepter
(Naaaw, itsa RHYTHM STICK !); tamgha behind.
Rev.: BACIΛЄV BACIΛЄVΩN CΩTHP MЄΓAC; Vima Takto on horseback right, holding axe; tamgha to lower right.
Reference: Senior B17.1vT
Ex: @@John Anthony

The Kushan empire was founded in Bactria by the Yuezhi, a group of Chinese nomadic pastoralists, after their displacement by the Xiongnu in the 2nd century BC.

During the 1st century BCE, one of the five major Yuezhi tribes in Bactria, the Kushanas (Chinese: 貴霜; pinyin: Guishuang), began to subsume the other tribes and neighbouring peoples. The subsequent Kushan Empire, at its peak in the 3rd century CE, stretched from Turfan in the Tarim Basin, in the north to Pataliputra on the Gangetic plain of India in the south. The Kushanas played an important role in the development of trade on the Silk Road and the introduction of Buddhism to China. -wiki

 

** Not my coin **

But I recently came very close to buying this Celtic Tet that appears to depict some sort of magic chicken.

Eastern Celts, Imitative of Philip II of Macedonia, "Eingesetztem Pferdefuß" Type, c. 2nd - 1st Century B.C.

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I miss Steve here on CT

 

I've been taking more photos recently and this is a current favourite. C. Memmius denarius of 56BC. Cr 427/1:



And for music - Microdisney got back together after 30 years to play two gigs. This month, they're playing two more gigs, which will probably be their last. Here's their last album, 39 Minutes, in its entirety...



Roll on the 18th Feb

ATB,
Aidan.

 

Wow. Great coin, great shot!!

That's the rare Chickenvs Eqvvs.

 

I almost forgot the tune!
Here's some guitar porn over a trap beat. Instrumental..

 

What can I say, this coin and this song go together.





Romanus IV, Diogenes AD 1068-1071. Constantinople. Follis Æ
Romanus IV, Diogenes AD 1068-1071. Constantinople
Follis Æ
Overstruck


25mm., 4,91g.

 

Gallienus, 253-268 AD.
Roman Æ Antoninianus, 2.65 g, 20.1 mm, 5 h.
Rome Mint, 10th emission, 267-268 AD.
Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right.
Rev: LIBERO P CONS AVG, tiger walking left, B in exergue.
Refs: RIC 230K; Göbl 713b; Cohen 586; RCV 10281; Cunetio 1341; Hunter 112.

Some tiger-themed jazz by Carlos Santana:



But if you're not into jazz, here's some ABBA!

 

Hope nobody minds two Gallienus coins in a row!