Ancients => Post your Favourite coin and *Favourite tune*

Can't choose just one. For years I've been looking for a coin of Cleopatra VII with as pleasing portrait as this one. Have yet to find it. For the the music, Handel - " Julius Caesar" - Glynbourne production with Danielle de Niese as Cleopatra. Enjoy.

 

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Wow. People have really been raising the bar on the music lately ...not to mention some memorable coins, aspirationally or not! Here's an anonymous obole of the seigneurie of Issoudun (in Berry, a notoriously disorganized region just south of the county of Blois), c. 1044-1093. Duplessy 704. The legends are so blundered that you're really not missing much if I leave 'em out.

And here's a reading of a favorite short piece of Francois Couperin that I just rediscovered on YouTube. I especially like how the harpsichord is tuned to something within range of contemporary pitch, so that you get the kind of bass that the instrument was always supposed to have. ...Music for Chilling to.

 

How about a little Christone "Kingfish" Ingram in honor of a long-distance woman?

 

A sweet coin and some serious music, @Roman Collector. Had to make me wish that one of Kingfisher's mentors could have been this guy, who, for me, will always be the Zen master of the genre. ...Right, vaguely along the lines of being the Yoda to Kingfisher's Luke Skywalker. What John Lee Hooker did do, over the early '70's, was to set up a kind of ongoing, informal graduate seminar for blues rockers. In that capacity alone, he did Good Work. (Please note the sign at the front of the bus: "No Dancin'." ...And Wait for that one note where he does a kind of 'chord dump,' like you could do by hitting that many keys on a piano.)

...And, for pretext --Thanks, @Raymond Houser-- here's this.
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/bee-all-that-you-can-bee-honeybees-on-ancient-coins/

 

This thread hasn't had anything by The Undertones To remedy that, Teenage Kicks - two and a half minutes of pop punk brilliance:



I posted this in a different thread a few months ago, but here it goes again - I just scrolled back over arrivals in the last few months and it stood out.

Denarius of L. Livineius Regulus
Obv.: REGVLVS·PR. - Head of Regulus right
Rev.: L·LIVINEIVS - Curule chair; on either side, three fasces
Exergue: REGVLVS
Mint: Rome (ca. 42 BC)
Wt./Size/Axis: 3.69g / 18mm / -
References:

• RSC 10 (Livineia)
• Sydenham 1109
• Crawford 494/27
• HCRI 176
• Banti 5/6 (this coin)

Provenances:

• Ex. Leo Benz Collection
• Ex. CNG 166, 2007 lot 150
• Ex. Lanz 100, 2000, 435
• Ex. J. Martini Collection (Ratto 23, Feb. 1930, lot 745)

Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online auction NN Live 64 #467 21-Mar-2021



ATB,
Aidan.

 

Just so you don't think Handel was the only composer who wrote on historical themes, here' an excerpt from Claudio Monteverde's (1567-1643) opera, "The Coronation of Poppaea". Sung by Hana Blazikova as Poppaea and Justin Kim (counter tenor) as Nero. Enjoy.




The coin is a tetradrachm from Alexandria with Nero and Poppaea in much better condition than mine.

 

Sorry the previous music selection would not transfer. Here is another performance with Philippe Jaroussky (counter tenor) as Nero and Danielle De Niese as Poppaea.

 

A rare alliance coin commemorating the harmony of Phrygia, Hierapolis with Ephesus, Ionia. Assigned to the time of Valerian/Gallienus.

Phrygia, Hierapolis in alliance with Ephesus. AE22 Pseudo-autonomous. Boule/Men.

Obv: IEPAPOLEITWN K EFECIWN, Veiled bust of Boule r.
Rev: NEWKOPWN OMON(OIA), Men in Phrygian cap standing r., head l., r. foot on bull's skull, holding pine cone and scepter.
BMC 187, pl. 52.5 and SNG Copenhagen 470, but seems to be from new dies on both sides.

 

Alright, here's some no-nonsense, old-time blues.



And some old-time cabinet toning.

 

Brilliant follow-up, @Roman Collector. I never heard of Scrapper Blackwell, but am seriously needing all those flats he does on an accoustic guitar --never mind how he knows that you already know the song, to the point of not having to finish the rhyme at the end of the verse.
From there, it was an easy transition from this, a clipped and worn denier of Raoul, King of Francia 923-936, Orleans /''AVRELANIS CIVITA[...]" mint (Depeyrot 2008, #733; bought on Delcampe, unattributed as the driven snow, --or it wouldn't have happened)

to this, my favorite reading of another song by Billie Holiday (who, thank you, covered "Nobody Knows You," another several times). From a record that my mom bought, and that I grew up with. ...Not the best metaphor for coin collecting, but, No, they can't take that away from me, either.

 

Elis, Olympia. 131st-135th Olympiad. 256-240 BC. Fouree Hemidrachm
Obv: Laureate head of Zeus right.
Rev: Thunderbolt within olive wreath.
AR(fourre) Hemidrachm

 

Makedon
Philip V
AE17 3.7g
221-179 BCE
Perseus Hd R helmet w winged vulture -
Horse rearing R
SNG Cop 1239

 

..this would be for the Becker coins i just got ..coins that you've dreamed about(and there are several) for many years but had doubts about ever owning not to mention my 1st auctionhouse bid/buy

 

Great song! Great coins!

 

This song has been rumbling around in my head for weeks:

 

...ALL SUSPECTS ARE PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW...^^(reminds me of the show "COPS" )

 

...There's somebody on YouTube who posts all kinds of '70's reggae with that same picture of, and attribution to, Bob Marley. Without checking, I'm pretty sure that's the band, Culture. And Yes, it Was used for the theme to "Cops." ...A little like what The Roots (arguably the greatest Hip-Hop band of all time) did; they became the house band for whichever late-night talk show it is ...and, as far as albums are concerned, were never heard from again. Their gain was our profound, communal cultural loss.

...Very cool Beckers, @ominus1. It's fun how, sometimes, Becker couldn't stop himself from (big fat air quotes: ) "improving" on the original style.

 

Pontus, Amisos. Æ20. Tyche/Eagle
Obv: ΑΜΙϹΟϹ / Head of Tyche r.
Rev: ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ƐΛƐΥΘƐΡΑϹ / Eagle standing r., wings open, head l.
Time of Maximinus 235-238AD.

 

@ancientone, I rrrReally Need this tune, and the band, who I Never heard of, and just Wiki'd. A revelation. If people can still make music that sounds like this, maybe there's hope for all of us.
...Liking the coin a lot, too. The very first 'Greek' coin I ever got, as a kid, was an AE from Mithradates (from memory...wish you could stop me in time) IV, when the Roman Republic was still in the process of 'cleaning up' Asia Minor. ...Thank you, around a quarter-millennium earlier than your example. For yours truly, Roman provincials as late as this (versus Julio-Claudian and Antonine --besides Alexandrian tets, that is) still have plenty of novelty value. Really an education to see what happened, just stylistically, in the interval. ...From a kingdom to a backwater province. How are the mighty fallen.

 

Here's a trachy of Frankish /Latin Constantinople that, well, I just liked, and the price was right. People have been posting brilliant stuff about the series, just lately, including the eminently plausible hypothesis that some of it (ostensibly running to the later phases) includes Bulgarian imitations. ...I, for one, am going to have to go looking for it again!
And, just because it was that long since I've heard it, there's this.