Post an Old Coin and an Old Tune...

This thread isn't asking you to post your "favorite" coin or "favorite" tune.. well, we can only have so many favorites...

How about looking back into your collection and posting a coin you have owned for a long time, maybe a bit neglected now? Our standards change and our collections evolve... but those coins can bring back great memories.... add an old song that makes us feel good! 2020 sucks - make it better!!


It can be happy or sad... like this - but it moves us forward!!

****us Canadians have always been very proud of this poet/genius..




Another poet/genius....

 

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A man walks into a bar in New Orleans.. asks for two Hurricanes and a cold Corona..
barmaid says- "no problem.... that will be $20.20"......

 

Like a fine wine, Leonard got better with age. One of my favorites.
Anthem:
Sorry, photos are on my other laptop. Haven't transferred them yet.

 

I love this one......

 

I don't give this Alexandrian diobol of Livia enough attention after 18-1/2 years:

Livia, under Augustus, 27 BC - AD 13.
Roman Æ diobol, 7.41 g, 24.2 mm, 1 h.
Egypt, Alexandria, 6th series, AD 10-11.
Obv: Bare head right with Nodus hairstyle.
Rev: Date (LM=40) within oak wreath.
Refs: BMC 16.4, 31; SGI 209; Emmett 57; RPC 5054.
Notes: Antioch Associates (Lindgren) Mail Bid Sale 38, 25 February, 2002, lot 110.

And as for old music that makes you feel good, it's hard to beat KC & the Sunshine Band!

 

Spent some time in Bobcaygeon, Ontario this summer....
Amazing pristine lakes and forests.. completely untouched.. at night, stars like you've never seen.
I may retire there someday.

 

Cn. Blasio Cn.f..
Denarius, 3.64g. (h). Rome, 112-111 BC. Obv: Helmeted head right (Scipio Africanus?), mark of value above, caduceus behind, [CN BLA]SIO CN F before. Rx: Jupiter standing. between Juno and Minerva, dot in field, [ROMA] in exergue. Crawford 296/1a. Sydenham 561. RSC Cornelia 19. Minor weakness on reverse. Bold, lustrous EF.

 

When it comes to being sharp-dressed, I don't think anyone outdoes Probus. Nope, no bare-chest with a tad of drapery on the far shoulder for him. He's got consular robes and fancy cuirasses and such.


Probus, AD 276-282
Roman billon antoninianus; 3.79 g, 22.1 mm
Rome, AD 277-280
Obv: IMP PROBVS P F AVG, radiate bust right in consular robe, eagle tipped scepter in right hand
Rev: ROMAE AETER, temple, statue of Roma seated facing inside; in exergue, R * A
Refs: RIC 183; Cohen 533; RCV 12027 var.

Which reminds me of ...

 

Bithynia, Tium. Antoninus Pius AE18. Zeus Syrgastes Obv: ANTONINO Y KAICAPOC (retrograde) / Pius bust r.
Rev: ZEUS TIANWN / Zeus Syrgastes standing, l., holding patera and long scepter.
18mm, 3.4gm.
Rec Gen 38, var.

 

I've only got one Venus.





Let's go back to the 80's synth-pop:

 

Parthia Mithradates III 58-55 BCE AR Drachm 3.9g 20mm Rhagae mint star archer bashlyk throne bow Selwood 41-12

 

How about paring a Syracuse tetradrachm with Connie Evingson?

 

SYRACUSE 2nd Democr 466-405 BCE Æ Tetras 2.7g 15mm c.425 BCE Arethusa dolphins - Octopus 3 pellets SNG ANS 376 Calciati II.21.1

 

Achaemenid Xerxes II to Artaxerxes II 420-375 BC AR siglos 16 mm 5.14 g Persian king running spear bow - incuse Carradice Type IIIb C pl XIV 42) Sunrise 25

 

RR Anon AE Quartuncia 217-215 BC Saturn Prow BRN Cr 38-8 S 624

 

Campania CAPUA AE 14-5mm 216-211 Hera Oscan Grain ear Hannibal capital Italia SNG Fr 517 SNG ANS 219 HN Italy 500 EE Clain Stefanelli

 

Great thread @Clavdivs

Here is my contribution.

 

Achaea. Laconia, Lacedaemon(Sparta). Marcus Aurelius Æ20
Obv: ΙΜΠ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗ ΑΝΤΩ ΑVΓ / laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, r.
Rev: ΛΑΚƐΔΑΙΜΟΝΙωΝ / Club.

 

Thanks for reminding me about DZ!

 

Here's an old song played on a Victrola. It's been a number of years since I recorded this, and now I feel like I've become the old folks at home myself.


Something I personally don't post often, an ancient coin! Only figures, this is the ancient coin forum!
I'm all medieval all the time these days. I have a few ancients but I never seriously made progress on any collections. Perhaps one day I'll finish the Hadrian's travels and a few other sets I began.
This is a Hadrian Germania from Bermania. Purchased from the one and only Allen Berman some years ago.