Have you ever wished for a day where you can eat absolutely anything you want? Well that day is today. World Junk Food Day is celebrated every year on July 21. Dedicated to the foods we like to snack on, this isn’t your average cheat day. Today, you can eat junk food for every meal. Popularized in the U.S in the 1950s, junk foods are usually, by definition, high in fats, sugars, salt, and calories. But they are also high in deliciousness! Junk food day is the perfect day to treat yourself. On this day, you’re allowed your favorite junk foods without any guilt. So go ahead and add extra cheese on that burger and go for that order of fries. Today you’re allowed! But we're not on a food web site. I believe junk food existed 2000 years ago; and I ask CT members to help me to prove it. We all have in our collection examples of fatty/chubby faces Emperor. Please show them here. And Bon Appétit ! Nero Licinius Diocletian
Balbinus must have been a junk food aficionado. Also Taco Bell announced they no longer will be selling the 7-layer burrito yesterday.
Alexander the Great, after too many kebabs: AR Tetradrachm (17.04 gm). Arados mint. Civic issue, dated city year 59 (201/0 BC). Price 3389; Müller -. Same obverse die as British Museum 1857, 1218.8 Ex CNG 67, lot 449 (Garth R. Drewry Collection) Arados is now called Arwad and home to 3000 people. It is a tiny island, apparently just a rock 740m long by 400m wide; 0.2 square kilometers. New York’s Central Park is 3.4 square kilometers – 17 times larger!
I do everyday, and it's certainly not junk food, it would be a punishment I guess Vitellius is the guy you're looking for Rome mint, July - December 20, AD69 A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP TR P, Laureate head of Vitellius right XV VIR SACR FAC, Tripod-lebes with dolphin lying right on top and raven standing right below 3.43 gr, 16-18 mm Ref : RCV # 2201var, Cohen cf # 110 et suiv, RIC I # 86 (this example illustrated in Wildwinds) Q
I always find it amazing that small places were the site of very prolific mints in ancient times-Arados, Kyzicus, Mesembria, ( modern Nesebar in Bulgaria) Aegina is tiny, Thasos......
Closer to us, George III wasn't bad either : Penny, 4th type, 1807 Soho mint, Birmigham Ref : Spink # 3780 Q
I look forward to your post on September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day. In the mean time, here's a fathead Constantine I for your junk food gallery: Antioch mint, A.D. 321-323 RIC 34 Obv: IMP C FL VAL CONSTANTINVS P F AVG Rev: IOVI CONS-ERVATORI - Jupiter, leaning on eagle-tipped scepter, holding Victory on globe; eagle with wreath at feet to right, captive to left SMANTB in exergue; X over IIM (truncated) in right field 19 mm, 3.1 g.
I’m always happy to have a reason to post my fat Constantine. Constantine I, AE Follis Cyzicus circa 313, (22mm., 3.61g.) Laureate head right/ Rev. Jupiter standing l., holding Victory and eagle standing l. with wreath: in r. field, B and in exergue, SMK. RIC 3.
Both Tanit and the Bull were wishing for some junk food... Carthage 216-215 BCE Sardinia mint AE 3.3g Tanit L - BULL stndg R CNP 377a
