Post an Old Coin and an Old Tune...

@svessien - really enjoyed the song you posted, but I was a little shocked when seeing the bass player (3:00) - for a monent I thought this is Nero on stage.
Quite embarrassed to find out just now we are from the same country (Decebal Badila, not Nero).

 

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Romania, right? So is the piano player, Eugen Cicero I’ve never heard Nero on lyre, but I’m willing to bet my bozouki on Decebal Badila being both a nicer person and a better string player. People can say what they want about the choice of genre, but these guys can play.

 

Yes, and this is more embarrassing since I am also an amateur bass player. I always wanted to have the talent and dedication to reach the skills for playing jazz/swing, but not in this life.

 

England, Stephen, 'Waterford' penny, cut (watch this) quarter farthing.
Sorry for the pic ...and I couldn't even find the one for the reverse. That's his hand, holding a sceptre.
...And --a propos of nothing relating to the coin; more along the lines of, who can't use some seriously chill music these days?-- here's some from Toumane Diabaté and Ali 'Farka' Touré, two of the leading proponents of Malian kora and accoustic guitar over the later 20th century.

 

Italy: German emperor Heinrich VI and Constanza de Hauteville, heiress of Norman Sicily. Billon denaro of Messina, 1194-1196.
Obv. +E [rounded, the middle bar lightly struck]. IMPERATOR
Rev. Staufen eagle, beak to left, pellet below.
[From 1 o'clock:] C. IMPERATRIX.
Andrea, The Hohenstaufen's Coins of the Kingdom of Sicily (2013), citing no other references.
Along with other Staufen coins of Sicily, conspicuously including those of Friedrich II, this is fun for being an early instance of European heraldry in this medium.
Here's my favorite reading of Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker, with Miles Davis on trumpet ...at, what, 17, early enough to evoke Mozart. I love the counterpoint in the intro. --But, No, Parker (on sax) is pretty good, too!

 

I bought this one from Jonathan Kern back in 2000.


Julia Soaemias, AD 218-222.
Roman AR Denarius, 3.02 g, 19.2 mm, 1 h.
Rome, AD 220-221.
Obv: IVLIA SOAEMIAS AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, r.
Rev: VENVS CAELESTIS, Venus diademed and standing l., holding apple and scepter; in right field a star.
Refs: RIC 241; BMCRE 45; RCV 7719 var.; Cohen 8; CRE 467.

And here's an old song that was a favorite of mine in the 70's!

 

This is an amazing rendition of the aria from Handel’s “Xerxes”

 

Almost the end of the workday for me, another day of modern slavery. My guitar would surely kill someone.

This emperor also killed, not sure if the lyre was the murder weapon, but in theory....

Thrace. Sestos. Domitian AD 81-96.
Bronze Æ 16 mm., 3,84 g. RPC 359

Obverse inscription ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑ-ΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Obverse design laureate head of Domitian, r.

Reverse inscription ϹΗϹΤΙWΝ
Reverse design: lyre

 

@Deacon Ray, that's phenomenal. ...Sorry, the aria. Who are the ensemble? Obviously 'original instruments' as get-out, with the theorbo. ...Oh, and the siglos is great, too, especially with your inimitable graphics.

 

Thank you— @+VGO.DVCKS ! This music is so beautiful I could listen to it all day and lose track of time. My apologies for not posting the orchestral credits. They are as follows: Handel: Serse, HWV 40 / Act 1 - “Ombra mai fu” · Andreas Scholl · Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment · Roger Norrington

Here’s another source which has slightly better sound quality but no video:

 

@Deacon Ray, thanks Lots! The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment sounded familiar (as a name), so I had to Wiki them. ...Wow. Talk about credentials. Guest conductors, along with Christopher Hogwood and William Christie, have included the great Gustav Leonhard and not one but two of his inner circle of alumni. I think I heard something, years ago, under the direction of Sigiswald Kuijken --a Mean viola de gambist.
And thanks for the second reading. Makes me want to hear the first one again!
God, that's freaking beautiful stuff.

 

A duck walks into a bar and asks the bartender, " Do you have any Bread?" the bartender says, " No" Duck - " Do you have any bread?" Bartender - "No"
Duck -" Do you have any bread?" Bartender- "NO! and if you ask me again I will nail your beak to the wall !!!" Duck - " Do you have any nails? " Bartender - " No "
Duck - " Do you have any bread? "

 

Very, Very, Very good, @SmokinJoe. Never heard that one.

 

No coin to go along with it, that I can think of, but I just bumped into this on YouTube. Kind of gives me permission to like the Grateful Dead as much as I do. (Granted, I never was a Deadhead, compared to the 'practicing' ones I knew in college. Didn't have the requisite level of commitment.) ...This could be about my neighborhood.

 

Great thread, @Clavdivs — I thought of a tune that might be appropriate to my
...on again off again... collecting habits last year. Replace the “It’s been one week...” lyrics with “It’s been one year...”

Here’s an image that illustrates the way I left my collection when I boxed it up and shoved it to the back of a top shelf in my storage closet last year.

 

...Yike, @Deacon Ray, sorry about All of that.
...Before getting any kind of notion of what you were dealing with --hoping less, not more of the BNL lyrics had any significance, other than at safely metaphorical levels-- I was wanting to segue back to Baroque vocal music.
...Autism spectrum. As in, Teacher, I Raise My Hand. ...One redeeming feature of which is that almost anything can wind up as something bordering on a religious experience.
...This is what I had to find on YouTube for the momentous events of this last Wednesday. ...The cds are in cardboard boxes, but only since I tipped over the (tippy, metal) shelf they were on --all by myself.

Um, this is the Academy of Ancient Music, probably directed by Christopher Hogwood, but the YouTube thing wouldn't say.

 

I have two daughters.. one just turned 20 and one is 17...
Oh Teenage angst.. remember when we were the center of the universe??? So self absorbed? We all were at some point.

As a parent navigating this time is a challenge and when their world is falling apart (friends, boyfriends, heavily amplified now by COVID, etc) my wife and I are trying to keep it all together. They're great kids... just a tough time.

Lately when the wife and I get a break and have a glass or few of wine, we've reverted to playing our old '80s teenage angst tunes..

Here is one of our favorites:



I'll add a coin of a teenaged emperor (this is not my coin)- no wonder he was a screw up! Never had a chance with the crazy, hyper emotional teenage years..

 

Here's one I've had in my collection for nearly 20 years, so I think it fulfills @Clavdivs' request for "a coin you have owned for a long time, maybe a bit neglected now."

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 a tune from my childhood!

 

Awesome music selection, +VGO.DVCKS ! Some composers have the ability to touch your heart and soul. JS Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi are a few that do that to me.

 

@Deacon Ray, you talked me into it. The Kyrie from Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli, by the inimitable Tallis Scholars.