Dionysos/Favorite Drink thread

Dionysus or Dionysos in Greek mythology or Bacchus in Roman, is the god of the grape-harvest, wine-making and wine, of fertility, orchards and fruit, vegetation, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theater. Homer describes him as 'The Joy of Men' and is also credited with the gift of wine to same. Lets post as many different Dionysos types as we can and your favorite beverage to consume while coining.(Can be non-alcoholic)



New find with Infant Dionysos.
Bithynia, Nicaea. Geta, AE17. Infant Dionysos
Obv: Π CEΠTI ΓETAC K, bare head r.
Rev: NIKAIEΩN, Infant Dionysos in cradle r., raising hands; thyrsos behind.


Pan with infant Dionysos
Achaea. Zacynthus, Island off Elis. Marcus Aurelius AE20. Pan with infant Dionysos Zacynthus; Achaea; Peleponnessus (District: Zacynthus). Date 161–180. Obverse design laureate head of Marcus Aurelius, r. / ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝ ΑΥ.
Reverse design Pan standing, r., nebris over shoulders, holding bunch of grapes and infant Dionysos / ΖΑΚΥΝΘΙΩΝ.
BMC 93-4



And my favorite libation...


..or until I spend this much on another brand.

 

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Don't have a type with Dionysus/Bacchus yet. I will share a libation, in this case an Ale good for a very hot (104 degree here) Labor Day.

 

I think mine will have to be Gerum or Kykeion. Lol, I'm a more limoncello and red wine kind of guy.

 

For a drink with octain I enjoy a Bloody Mary.
Otherwise un-sweet tea or Diet Coke.

 

@ancientone......What a cracking coin!...I've not seen this Bithynia type before and really nice patina!.......

Here's a recent pick up....
Pontos, Amisos. temp. Mithradates VI, c. 105-85 or 85-65 BC. Æ (16mm, 3.98g, 12h). Struck under Mithradates VI.
Obverse..Ivy wreathed head of Dionysos right.
Reverse..Filleted thyrsos, bell attached with fillet, AMI-ΣOY flanking across field, monogram lower right.
Mint..Amisos (Samsun, Turkey)
SNG Black Sea 1192-5; HGC 7, 251. Good VF

This little bottle helps you to pick out some coins...

 

Fantastic coin, drink and thread idea!
Here's my top shelf when it comes to Dionysus portrait on coins (it's even on an ancient beer bottle cap)


Here's my top shelf when it comes to drinks


And just cause you mentioned the old wordsmith:

...I mean:

 

I drink beer/ale during the day and wine with soda after 7.

 

While I do have several coins showing Liber/Dionysos my beverage of choice is shown spewing out of the rocks behind the lion on this rather rare version of the Septimius Severus INDVLGENTIA IN CARTH type. This one has the optional drum in place of the common thunderbolt (if your water has a thunderbolt, it may be fire-water). Common beverages here other than water are kefir and ginger-tea.

 

Tap Water; Lu Cha (Green Tea) Hot; Ice Tea, no ice - all day.

Sometimes an hoppy IPA ( @ancient coin hunter ’s Hop Stoopid looks very interesting),
sometimes The Macallan Whisky,
and if wine - a dry Cab.


Thasos, Thrace, BC 168-148
AR, tetradrachm, 16.12g, 31mm; 11h
Obv.: Portrait of Dionysos
Rev.: ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ to left, ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ to right, ΘΑΣΙΩΝ below; Hercules with lion pelt in arm resting on club. M monogram left
EX: @Ancientnoob

 

I have only a couple of coins showing Dionysos, both from Lydia, and both issued when the cities that minted them were under the authority of the Roman Republic:

Lydia, Philadelphia, AE 17, Late 2nd/Early 1st Centuries BCE, Hermippos, son of Hermogenes [father's name known from other coins], archiereus [magistrate]. Obv. Head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy-wreath and band across forehead, [Φ]ΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕ[ΩΝ] vertically behind / Rev. Spotted pantheress [leopard] walking left, with head turned back to right, cradling thyrsos bound with fillet (ribbon) against left shoulder, right foreleg raised; ΑΡΧΙΕΡ-ΕΥΣ above, ΕΡΜΙΠΠΟΣ in exergue. Seaby II 4720 [Sear, D., Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. II, Asia & Africa (Seaby 1979), at p. 430 (ill.)]; BMC 22 Lydia 16 [Head, B.V. A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum, Lydia (London 1901) at p. 189]; SNG Von Aulock II 3057 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock, Vol. 2: Caria, Lydia, Phrygia, Lycia, Pamphylia (Berlin 1962)]; SNG Copenhagen 340 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 27, Lydia Part 1 (Copenhagen 1947)]; Imhoof-Blumer 8 [Imhoof-Blumer, Friedrich, Lydische Stadtmünzen, neue Untersuchungen (Leipzig 1897) at pp. 114-115]; Mionnet IV No. 536 [Mionnet, Théodore E., Description de Médailles antiques grecques et romaines, Vol. IV, Lydie (Paris 1809) at p. 98]. 17 mm., 5.02 g. [With old collector’s envelope.]



Lydia, Tralleis/Tralles, AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm, 127/126 BCE or 122/121 BCE, Magistrate Ptol-. Obv. Cista mystica with lid ajar and serpent emerging; all within ivy wreath / Rev. Bowcase (gorytos) with two serpents (one to left and one to right, heads at top); H [= date = Year 8 = 127/126 BCE or 122/121 BCE] over ΠTOΛ [PTOL] above, between serpents’ heads, TPAΛ [TRAL] in left field; to right, Dionysos in short chiton standing facing, head left, holding thyrsos in right hand and mask of Silenos in left hand. SNG Copenhagen 662-663 var. [different year] [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Part 28, Lydia Part 2 (Copenhagen 1947)]; BMC 22 Lydia 48 (p. 333) var. [different year] [Head, B.V., A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 22, Lydia (London, 1901); SNG von Aulock 3262-3264 var. [different year] [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland, Sammlung Hans Von Aulock, Vol. 2: Caria, Lydia, Phrygia, Lycia, Pamphylia (Berlin, 1962)]; Pinder 159 [same year -- “H”]; see also id. 157-158 [different years] [Pinder, M., Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der Römischen Provinz Asien (Berlin, 1856) at pp. 565-566]. 24 mm., 12.64 g. [probably = 3 drachms, not 4], 1 h. Ex: CNG Auction 225 (13 Jan. 2010), Lot 144.



As far as my favorite drink while looking at coins is concerned, my consumption of alcohol consists of two or three glasses of white wine per year. I've simply never liked the taste of any alcoholic beverage, no matter how much I pretended to back when I was in college. So I'd rather have a nice glass of ginger ale, maybe with a liverwurst on rye.

 

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA Antiochos VI Dionysos
Serrate Æ 145-142 BC Antioch on the Orontes mint
O: Radiate head of Dionysos right, crowned with ivy
R: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ - ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ / ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ Elephant standing left holding torch in raised trunk; ΣTA above cornucopia in right field
SNG Spaer 1772; Houghton 248

 

@Spaniard I've not tried that brandy, looks good! and very nice Dionysos on that Mithradates.

@Ryro Can I come over to your place next time I need a drink?

 

Gosh, @Herodotus , I have Archie here. He is asking if that is a Pink-o Red wine?

 

A little bit of Bourgeoisie a little bit of "Peace of Resistance".

 

In whose presence are you going to open that 1966 vintage? Pray tell.

 

Already opened w/ friends last February. 'Twas an exemplary claret.

I still have a Chateau Margaux from the same vintage(among a few others from the Rive Gauche of the Garonne). My Grandfather acquired cases and cases at the time of their release 50+ years ago.

Upon his death, the remaining bottles went on to my father, and then to me, after my dad's passing.

 

Here a tetradrachm purchased in 2018.

Thrace, 146 BC
Thasos
Tetradrachm
Obverse: Dionysos, facing right, nice style
Reverse: Hercules, standing with club and lion skin
16.53 grams



As for libation, I've taken a liking lately to We are Sonoma Red Blend, very affordable and drinkable.

There are quite a few wineries throughout the region and I have a fabulous store nearby, Total Wine. I just hope they don't go out of business in the midst of the pandemic.

 

Sorry, no coins. ...These days, it runs toward bottom-shelf Scotch on a good day, and bottom-shelf Canadian on a less-good day. With lots of tap water. And either one is reliably turpentine-free.

 

You ain't drunk until you're ridin' on a panther drunk!


Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman provincial triassarion, 6.34 g, 23.4 mm, 7 h.
Thrace, Pautalia, AD 161-175.
Obv: ΦΑVCΤΕΙΝ-Α CΕΒΑCΤΗ, draped bust of Faustina II, right; band of pearls around head.
Rev: ΟVΛΠΙΑC-ΠΑVΤΑΛΙ-ΑC, Dionysus seated on panther walking, r., resting r. arm on panther, holding thyrsus.
Refs: RPC IV 8811; Ruzicka 99.
Notes: Double die match to RPC IV 8811(4) = Ruzicka 99(4) = Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 8775.

And I do like a little Dalwhinnie now and then: