I'M FAT AND SOME OF MY COINS TOO...

I chuckle every time I see your husky Herakles... or should I say, adipose Alexander.
I just wish I knew who it reminded me of:


Here's a CHONKER of mine.
Even for a notoriously large coin she is big and tips the scales at a rubenesque nearly 90 grams

SKYTHIA Olbia - Face Proto Money
437-410 BC
Obv: facing gorgon's head. Rev: sea eagle flying right. 65.4 mm, 89.7 grams. Poor. Scarce.
Provenance
Property of a European collector; acquired in 2007; previously in a Dutch collection formed in the 1980s-1990s.
Literature Sear 1682. Purchased from Timeline Auctions Feb 2021

 

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I dislike the BMI scale - I don't believe it accounts for all body types, shapes, age, etc.
I am 6 feet tall and was 228lbs ten years ago.. I lost 46 lbs and was sitting at 182. My BMI told me I had to get down to 174 (or something close to that - can't recall ... but it was in the 170's). My whole family was PLEADING with me not to lose more - I looked like a stick. Anyone who knew me thought I had a terminal disease.
For me a comfortable weight is in and around 190-195.. which does not fit into the BMI scale as "normal". The struggle to stay there continues and gets more difficult as I get older...
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Here's a fella that seemed to be a bit on the large side. but I don't recommend losing the weight the way he did in the end (if rumors are to be believed)



Valerianus I. (253-260 AD). AE Sestertius (27 mm, 15.93 g), Rome, 253-254 AD.
Obv. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, Laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev. VICTORIA AVGG / S - C, Vic
tory standing left, holding wreath and palm

 

Here is an extremely heavy (and fat) Antoninian of Claudius II from my collection:

Obv.: IMP CLAVDIVS PF AVG
Rev.: VICTORIA AVG
Exergue: S
Weight: 6.25g

The flan is large and very thick. On the top of the coin you are not looking at excess surface, but the rim of the coin.

Luckily, the coin is both fat an beautiful.

 

30 specimens in the Cunetio hoard with an average of 3.39g.
53 in the Normanby hoard with an average weight of 3.37g.

 

Here is a very thick Thracian Kings bronze coin discussed in a prior Cointalk thread:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/king-amatokos-of-thrace-thickest-greek-bronze-ive-seen.292696/

These unusual coins were issued for several different rulers and in a several different varieties.