This Virus Needs to End (If for no other reason than my bloody wallet)

I will admit, the Styx reference went over my head. I am familiar with the band but not with their discography. I've learned something else tonight

 

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..hehe..well, it was a lil before your time, so that's forgivable...

 

As soon as I saw "too much time" on your hand, bam...back to the 70s and Styx. I'm also former military, 12 years enlisted, and wish I could do the whole thing over again with my Year 2020 mind between my ears.

 

Here's a "bored at home -- I think I'll have a snack off eBay" purchase:


Valerian I, AD 253-260.
Roman AR antoninianus, 2.75 g, 20 mm, 7 h.
Uncertain Eastern mint, 2nd emission, AD 256-260.
Obv: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS·P·F·AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front.
Rev: PIETAS AVGG, Valerian, holding eagle-tipped scepter, and Gallienus, holding parazonium, standing facing each other, sacrificing over lighted altar between them.
Refs: RIC 285; Göbl 1684e; Cohen/RSC 152; RCV 9955; Hunter 73.
Notes: The ANS attributes this issue to Cyzicus, Göbl to Samosata, and RIC to Antioch. According to the introduction of RIC volume V, during Valerian's reign, some coins minted in Asia cannot certainly be attributed to either Antioch or Cyzicus (p.22-26). RIC dates this issue to AD 255-56.

 

..haha...me also...but oh well...here we are...a shorter future and longer past..

 

purdy nice one..huh...ya got that off of Nathan?(maybe not Nathan, but i was studying on yours sumwhere on ebay).....i bought one also from him..my 1st win o de year...Valerian was next on my '3rd century emperors' list.....(i'll post mine when it comes )

 

I was watching this one on eBay - it went really cheap, in my opinion. The portrait is spectacularly odd.

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