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

I have Marlylin Monroe singing Happy Birthday to me....cause it's my birthday.



And here's a random coin because it's my birthday and I just don't care... (about anything else at this moment)

 

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well happy bday big O..you should be getting 'cards' in the mail

 

Happy Birthday @Sallent !

 

@Sallent

 

A Blast from the Past -



MACEDONIAN KINGDOM, Philip V
AE21. 7.19g, 21.2mm. Struck 186-182 BC. SNG Cop 1250. O: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress. R: BA, two goats recumbent right; Φ and ear of grain below.
Ex Stevex6 Collection

 

I assume poor Valerian knew shortly after meeting Shapur that it was "the end of the line"....


Wonderful tune that reminds me of when I turned 20... the only music my old Dad and I could listen to together - the Travelling Wilburys. We had the album on a lot in our house.

Now three are gone (George, Tom ...and Roy was gone before they shot the video - thus the guitar in the rocking chair)... great memories!.. sorry the coin isn't better - but one of my favorites.




Favorite line? "well it's all right, even if you're old and grey, well it's all right, you still got something to say!"

 

Vol. 1 was a favorite album from my younger days. I liked Vol. 3 as well, but it just wasn't the same without Roy. This one still gets plenty of rotation in the car...



Apparently, the phrase "Handle with Care" was often overheard when the servants at the Royal Persian court had to move about the trophy made from Valerian's skin when they were cleaning the floors.

VALERIAN
Billon Antoninianus. 2.58g, 20.5mm. Cologne mint, AD 258-259. RIC 5; Cunetio 706. O: VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: DEO VOLKANO, Vulcan standing right within tetrastyle temple, holding tongs and hammer; anvil at feet to left.
Ex Guerche-sur-l’Aubois Hoard, No. 331 (of 554 coins discovered by a lady while she was digging up her cellar)

 

Thank you my friend!..... Valerian + Wilburys = perfect post!

 

Give it up for Roy....



Random coin....

 

His reign saw the end of the Western Roman Empire following the deposition of Romulus Augustus and the death of Julius Nepos, (Wikipedia...)




RI Zeno 476-491 CE 2nd reign AE 10mm Monogram

 

The KLF, just because I listened to some of their stuff tonight - they even got Tammy Wynette to sing with them - "Justified And Ancient":



After the sudden end to their music career and deletion of their back catalogue, they founded the K Foundation and gave an award for the worst art of the year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_art_award) to the recipient of the Turner Prize for best art (the K Foundation prize was twice as big). They had about £1 million left and after failing to drum up much interest in an artwork consisting of the money nailed to a board, burned it in a shed in Scotland and made a film about it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid).

Being an artist himself, I'm sure Nero would have understood and approved - RIC 220 As.

 

Il m’a dit "tu es belle dans ton corps de fille
Je le ferai femme, comme une Cybèle après chenille."




Faustina II, AD 147-175/6.
Roman orichalcum sestertius, 23.49 g, 29.0 mm, 11 h.
Rome, AD ca. 174-176.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: MATRI MAGNAE S C, Cybele seated right, holding drum in left hand on left knee; to left and right of throne, lions, seated right.
Refs: RIC 1663, BMCRE 932-935; Cohen 169; Sear 5281; MIR 25; ERIC II 205.

 

Happy birthday @Sallent !

Edit: I am slow on the uptake, sorry - I just saw your birthday was on 9 August! So it is happy belated birthday!

 

Well, and my son was August 6. So his birthday is on the anniversary of Hiroshima and mine on the anniversary of Nagasaki. . Didn't plan it that way, obviously. It just happened that way.

 

I recently had this beautiful Baroque Papal Medal in my possession which is leaving my hands tomorrow to go to a worthy member of this forum...



PAPAL STATES. Alexander VIII, 1689-1691
AR plated AE medal, 16.4g, 32mm, 12h. Struck 1690.
Obv.: ALEXAN· - VIII·PONT:M:A:I·; Bust right; HAMERAN in small letters below bust; dotted border.
Rev.: SVAVITATE; Ornate thurible; billowing clouds of smoke above // 1690
Ex-Kerry Wetterstrom

Alexander VIII reigned from 1689 to 1691. He was the last pope in history to take the pontifical name Alexander. It was actually the ambassador of Louis XIV that managed to secure Alexander’s election – France was hoping for more influence over the Vatican. However, after months of negotiation, the new pope condemned the liberties of the Gallican church. The medal was engraved by Giocanni Hamerani, the father of a family of engravers that served the papacy, see this interesting article.

Some of you know that I'm not a coin dealer in real life, but rather a classical musician. Here is my own recording of Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck's Chromatic Fantasy. Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue who lived a generation before the Hamerani engravers, but the music and medallic sculpture share the same Baroque complexity and impeccable craftsmanship...

 

For various reasons, I didn't make it to a gig this weekend, but here's some music from one of those who was performing - "Bertie's Brochures", complete with intro., by The Fatima Mansions.



I won two Eraviscan coins yesterday and was pointed to another on eBay by a fellow CoinTalker, so maybe I'll end up with that too. This is my favourite Eraviscan, which came from a Hungarian dealer last year, a silver denarius (the obverse photo' is a little out of focus):

Laureate head of Jupiter right
RAVIS - Globe between sceptre (resembling thunderbolt) and rudder
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.35g / 17mm / 9h
References:

• Torbágyi C11 i
• Freeman, Essays Hersh, pl. 29, 6

 

RIP Daniel Johnston.


ANTONINUS PIUS
AE18. 4.01g, 18.3mm. BITHYNIA, Nicaea, circa AD 138-161. RPC IV.1 temp #4916; Rec 79 var. (bust type). O: ΑVΤ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ, bare head right. R: ΝΕΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ, Infant Dionysus seated in liknon (winnowing basket) right, extending both arms; thyrsus to left.

 

Macrinus, AD 217-218.
Roman provincial Æ pentassarion, 12.60 g, 27.2 mm, 1 h.
Moesia Inferior, Nicopolis, Legate Marcus Claudius Agrippa, AD 218.
Obv: ΑV Κ ΟΠΠΕΛ CΕVΗ ΜΑΚΡΙΝΟC, laureate head, right.
Rev: VΠ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑ ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟC ΙCΤΡΩ, Nude Apollo with crossed legs standing right, his right arm drawn back, his left on a tree trunk, from which a lizard (?) leaps across to him.[5]
Refs: AMNG I 1687; Moushmov 1210; Hristova and Jekov 8.23.7.2; Varbanov 3348; Mionnet Suppl. 2, p. 148, 541.

 

Walzing Matidia? Close enough!


Trajan and Matidia, Augusta AD 112/114? - 119.
Roman Æ triassarion, 10.98 g, 26.6 mm, 12 h.
Cilicia, Anazarbos, year 132 = AD 113-114.
Obv: AYTO KAI NЄP TPAIANOC CЄ ΓЄPM ΔA, laureate head of Trajan, right.
Rev: KAICAPЄ ΠΡ ANAZAPBΩ ΜΑΤΙΔΙΑΝ CЄB, bare-headed and draped bust of Matidia, right; in field, ЄT - BΛP (year 132).
Refs: RPC III 3370; SNG Levante 1385; Von Aulock 5477; SGI 1103; Ziegler 110-114.

Either way, it's CASH, right?

 

One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast ...




Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman Æ as, 9.85 g, 25 mm.
Rome, AD 214.
Obv: IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, diademed and draped bust, right.
Rev: VESTA SC, Temple of Vesta with four Vestals in scene of sacrifice; lighted altar in center.
Refs: RIC 607; BMCRE 232-33; Cohen 234; RCV 7137.