I know it's a bit late, since last Sunday was Father's day but I purchased these coins on Father's day as a little gift to myself. I bought 4 of them from the same seller who had 2 of the 4 misattributed which I think helped keep them pretty cheap. I was surprised how quickly they arrived. Three are new Byzantines, all of which are new Emperors to me, well the Anastasius and Leo VI are, we have a Phocas but not with Leontia. The Probus Tet from Alexandria was just too cool to say no to and the Victoria Half Crown was being sold for under melt. I have a thing for British silver so how could I say no to a coin for under melt that fits in my collection? From oldest to youngest: Probus Potin Tetradrachm of Alexandria Year 7 = 281-282 AD Obverse: A K M AVΡ ΠΡOBOC CEB, laureate cuirassed bust right Reverse: L-Z, eagle standing right with wreath in its beak Anastasius I Constantinople AE Follis. 491-518 AD Obverse: DN ANSTASIVS PP AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right Reverse: Large M, dot over star to left, cross above, dot over star to right, officina letter Gamma below Mintmark CON Phocas and Leontia AD 602-610 AE follis Antioch as Theopolis Obverse: DN FOCA NE PE AV or similar, Phocas on left, holding cross on globe and Leontia, usually but not always nimbate, on right, holding sceptre topped by cross, standing facing Reverse: Large m (lower case), ANNO to left, cross above, regnal year 3 to right Mintmark THEUP Leo VI AE Follis Constantinople Obverse: LEON bASILEVS ROM, crowned bust facing with short beard, wearing chlamys, holding akakia Reverse: LEON EN QEO BA SILEVS R OMEON legend in four lines 1894 Great Britain Half Crown
Nice purchases! I tried bidding on a few ancients for my Father's Day, but no luck. Auction prices are very high these days. Trying again in July.
Ah, everybody forgets fathers day anyway. Best practice of it, is to have it as a movable day, that you can use for the extravagance you really can’t afford. I practice fathers day like this 3-4 times a year.
Not true! Our 'party animal' family celebrated Father's Day a few days late by getting carry out from a favorite restaurant and playing board games. Of course that same outing (or is it 'inning'?) celebrated our wedding anniversary, grandson's birthday and high school graduation (quadruple play?). This was our second carry out party in recent months. In May we combined my birthday and Mother's Day with a similar meal. Our next event is in September when we hope to celebrate my wife's birthday, our daughter going back to school (teaching 1st grade), our grandson going off to college my favorite coin show annual event (VNA in Fredericksburg. Of those, her birthday is most likely to happen; the schools are still in question; the coin show is unlikely.
I understood this post a lot better when I realized that «carry out» is the same as take away, and could stop imagining the Smith family being carried out from a restaurant by bouncers, only to get home and somehow being able to arrange a board game. I find it tactically savvy to bake in the interests of father with the interests of the women in the family. They are usually the ones most skilled at celebrations, at least here they are. I hope they will be able to open the schools in your area by fall. The kids have been out of it long enough now. Here, the schools opened up gradually during May. It has gone well so far, but we have been fortunate with the containment and only have a couple of hundred active cases and 20 people in hospital at the moment.
A lot depends on where you learned English. The UK language and the US language have many differences (corn, lift, lorry, tram) and, within each, there are as many variations (Cockney, Creole, Downeastern etc.). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English On CT we have many people for whom English is a second language but more who do not realize the great variations whichever one they consider 'correct'. Where I was raised, 'take away' was another way to say 'subtract' (four take away one is three). 'Carried out' is more likely to mean 'done' or perhaps be done by medical personnel as a way to going to the hospital, morgue or 'drunk tank' while bouncers were more likely to 'throw out', 'give the boot' (boot being a shoe rather than a car part), 'eject' or 'toss' an unruly patron. There are a hundred (thousand, ten thousand, myriad, lots of, countless) ways to say most anything and most of us only use a few of the options. That explains why they stopped printing Unabridged Dictionaries in hardcopy (on paper). Those who have studied the language to the point that the book would be useful tend not to be strong enough to lift the things. https://www.economist.com/johnson/2013/05/29/lexical-facts I found interest in the numbers in the link above but I have neither the slightest idea how those numbers were reached nor whether they are even close to accurate. I have not the foggiest idea how many words I know nor how one might go about determining that number.
VERY nice Father's Day present, @furryfrog02! I'm always a fan of Alexandrian tets and big Byz folles, but those Phocas and Leo coins are wonderful and give me a numismatic spark to look for similar types. My Fathers Day, the wife and kids made me a special breakfast and then we rode bikes to the lake and spent a few hours at the beach playing in the water and sand. Then the evening was dedicated to a low-key celebration of our 1-yr anniversary just watching a movie together.
