Yes they did but if you take a tour instead of just going there you get to go beyond the rope and inside the monument.
Better late than never. Imagine I wasn't aware of this intimate and friendly thread until now. I've been watching it for an hour. Can't wait to post a new photo of mine. Here's a nice one with my blue pet ( J.A. School). It was a very pleasant evening during the wedding of a friend's daughter. I was happy after some cheerful drinks. That was over 4 years ago. I'll be posting more fresh photos. Here's the blue photo first. Blue because she was wearing a blue robe. The coin happened also to be photographed on a blue base. Really crazy blue...
So here's a picture of me a couple years ago with my two sons when my beard was at its most glorious. I'm a fan of beards on coins, too.
Great photos all! Good to see some new posts in the thread Me with my "son" Edit: forgot to add a coin! I'm feeling a bit Greek right now so here's one of my favorite Greek acquisitions Darios I to Xerxes II, Achaemenid Empire AR siglos Obv: Persian king/hero in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear and bow Rev: Incuse punch Mint: Sardes Date: 485-420 BC Ref: Carradice Type IIIb
Here is me and my little Nikki. She has started a US coin collection this last year- which has been fun. They have great collecting pieces/sets for kids! However, I was greatly relieved when she asked me for her birthday next month if she could have some of the "good coins". I asked "good coins?" - to which she replied "yes the dirty cool ones like yours mommy." So along with her Kids mint set she will be getting a little bag of uncleaned ancients. and one of my Favorite Gal Val- because she looks so manly and I love the hair!
Since I last posted on this thread I've added another kid and lost some hair. There might be causation between the two. I'll add a coin to keep it legal. I've only purchased a coupleof coins this year. Here is a penny of Henry III from Canterbury.
Since I'm always behind the camera and never (never never) in front of it, I grabbed a really crappy screen shot from a really crappy video of my first skydive - so long ago the video is on VHS...it was that, or my driver's license picture, and that's sure not going to happen. And just a copper As of Augustus, struck under Tiberius
I hereby dub thee "Ken Forkbeard". Numismatic note, copied from Wikipedia: A coin of Sweyn Forkbeard, minted in 995; this is the earliest known coin with a Latin inscription minted in Scandinavia, based on Anglo-Saxon models and made by an English moneyer (obv.: ZVEN REX AD DENER "Sven, king of [or among] the Danes", rev.: GOD-WINE M-AN D-NER "Godwine, moneyer among the Danes").[3]
With my mother and sister in Florida a few days ago. Edited to add: while some of y'all were probably shoveling snow, I was swimming here, so nyaah nyaah And my two most recent ancient coin newps: Greece (Thrace, Pantakapaion): bronze Æ21, ca. 310-303 BC Ex-Lodge Antiquities, UK. Roman Republic: bronze semis, anonymous issue, 211-207 BC; Hispania mint Ex-Traianvs Coins, Spain.