I recently finished bottling a pinot noir and I'm having trouble thinking of a name. I thought it would be fun to hold a competition here for best name. I want to keep it classics related and coin themed would be a plus. I'll be visiting my grandfather for the first time in 15 years in two weeks and I'll have the whole family vote on the names submitted. The winning name will recieve this *plugged* denarius minted by L Farsuleius Mensor L. Farsuleius Mensor. 76 B.C. AR denarius (20.3 mm, 3.49 g, 4 h). Rome mint. S·C, MENSOR, diademed and draped bust of Libertas right; pileus to left / L·FARSVLI, Roma holding spear and reins in biga, assisting togate figure into chariot; X below horses. Crawford 392/1b; Sydenham 789; RSC Farsuleia 2. Toned Fine, banker's mark on reverse, plugged. I don't know the laws of shipping wine but I would also like to ship a bottle to the winner if it's legal. That can be worked out later. Anyone is free to enter as long as they give the coin a good home. I don't want to see it on ebay in 3 months. Thanks for being a great coin community these last four years. You guys have taught me a lot.
How about Vitis Vinifera Felix? I'm a teetotaller, so if I win, I'll have to designate someone else to receive the wine, but I'd love to hang that denarius on my soon-to-be-reincarnated Holey Coin Hat! I've already moved on to brainstorming ideas for the bottle labels, now...
Nice name I tried google and got fir tree and something?? Haha I will be paying postage costs so no worries there for the winner.
I would call it the Probus. Why ? Edward Gibbon wrote in his Decline and Fall : " Probus exercised his legions in covering with rich vineyards the hills of Gaul and Pannonia, and two considerable spots are described which were entirely dug and planted by military labour". It is not far from the Burgundy region, where the grape variety has its origins. There is a mention in some sources of Probus authorizing the planting of vines in Britain too but this is debated.Quite why he was such an enthusiastic propagator of vineyards is hard to say.
You should consult one of our resident graphics wizards on that. @Deacon Ray comes to mind first and foremost. @TIF, too.
The good people at Tesorillo made a collection of wine labels featuring ancient coins: https://tesorillo.com/juegos/4_15.h...VP96EDW85KTPRirl8QYHUAmAibIz3vlZiwxfOd55MCGz4 There are quite a few - I always look at wine labels now, but I haven't seen any ancient coins on labels in the local supermarket As for the competition, maybe a trendy label IV2, with the 2 in superscript, for In Vino Veritas?
My sister manages a copy center and when I made my first wine I sent her this coin to make me a label I wanted her to take the obverse of the coin but I guess she took it as~ find something like this. She did a great job on the label so I didnt have the heart to tell her I wanted the coin on it. Great entry too
I hadn't seen that. Thanks! Some years ago we had a CT thread showing ancient coins on wine bottle labels but this is much more extensive . There's at least one from our CT thread that isn't on the Tesorillo page so I'll email them with the addition. What fun!! Is this what you do for a living? Is there a company name? Is the name to be for the wine only or part of the "company" name? I look forward to submitting an entry or two .
I looked up pinot noir and it was black pine then used google translate to Latin. No idea if it's anywhere close
BIBENDUM. From Catullus’s “Nunc est bibendum.” I think that phrase appears on other wine bottles, but not as a wine name proper. But it might’ve been done. My second choice is PATERA. The vessel for the wine libation. That might be a little bit off the beaten track.
I'll probably submit a long list covering serious to silly. One for the silly list: Satyr Sauce From the serious side: Armor of Achilles A mixture: Mainades (or Maenad or Maenads) Mainades were wild female followers of Dionysos. Their name supposedly translates to "raving ones".
