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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 24811970, member: 99456&quot;][ATTACH=full]1588021[/ATTACH]</p><p>Thanksgiving provides an opportunity to reflect on the last year with gratitude.&nbsp; It was a year marked by joyful moments &amp; unexpected challenges. To contributors to this ancient forum: a thanks for shared interests, ideas, history and coins.&nbsp; Nov 17th is my fifth anniversary of joining CoinTalk and I used the date to reflect on the year and post <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/2023-top-10-ancients" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/2023-top-10-ancients" rel="nofollow">my annual top 10</a> (you can vote for your favorites in the poll).&nbsp; Top 10 lists are a CT tradition which always brings a wide variety of interesting types and an opportunity to celebrate collections of all types.</p><p><br /></p><p>Romans loved a good feast and they constantly offered sacrifices to the gods. This RR denarius recalls a scene before the Battle of Lake Regillus (circa 496 BC), where the moneyer&#039;s ancestor A. Postumius Albinus, in command of the Roman army, defeated the Latin League, led by Tarquin the Proud, former king of Rome. Before the battle, the Romans sacrificed to Diana.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1588106[/ATTACH]</p><p>For more see: <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/of-greeks-and-cattle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/of-greeks-and-cattle" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/of-greeks-and-cattle</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Marcius Porcius Cato described a Spring ritual of gratitude to Jupiter before the planting of millet, panic grass, garlic, and lentils. The Romans also valued taking time to express gratitude:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">&quot;CXXXII. The offering is to be made in this way: Offer to Jupiter Dapalis a cup of wine of any size you wish, observing the day as a holiday for the oxen, the teamsters, and those who make the offering. In making the offering use this formula: “Jupiter Dapalis, inasmuch as it is fitting that a cup of wine be offered thee, in my house and in the midst of my people, for thy sacred feast; and to that end, be thou honored by the offering of this food.”</font></p><p><font size="4">-Cato the Elder, On Agriculture, CXXXII</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Closer to our Thanksgiving celebration as a harvest festival, the Romans celebrated the new vintage with Meditrinalia on October 11th.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">&quot;In the month of October, the Meditrinaliae ‘Festival of Meditrina’ was named from mederi ‘to be healed,’ because Flaccus the special priest of Mars used to say that on this day it was the practice to pour an offering of new and old wine to the god, and to taste of the same, for the purpose of being healed; which many are accustomed to do even now, when they say: Wine new and old I drink, of illness new and old I’m cured.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4">-Varro, On the Latin Language</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>My Top 10 for 2023 are posted here for your entertainment: <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/2023-top-10-ancients" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/2023-top-10-ancients" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/2023-top-10-ancients</a></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Post a favorite coin from 2023, an ancient source on gratitude or anything else you find interesting or entertaining.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6">Best Wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving!</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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