A nutritional numismatic snack: pine nuts

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  1. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    The pine cone on your coin is unusually clear for the type!
     
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  3. RAGNAROK

    RAGNAROK Naebody chaws me wi impunitY

    How funny! :woot: I'm "on vacation" :pompous: traveling ("wildy", my way...:D) through´old Europe. A few days ago I photographed this in an old Galician church (XII century!):
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  4. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    How timely :D

    I'll be traveling soon but the scenery will not be as historic. Maybe a few rusted out Ford pick up trucks, armadillos, roadrunnners, coyotes...
     
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  5. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    Make a detour through Arizona.
     
    randygeki, Jul 28, 2017
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  6. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    Obv. TPA AΔPIA
    Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.

    Rev. TIMBPIAΔЄΩN
    Mên standing left with phrygian cap , holding pine cone and sceptre.

    3.06 gr
    16 mm
    6h 402 P Hadrian unpubl. .jpg
     
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  7. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    The thyrsus (θύρσος) of Dionysus was topped with a pine cone. Wikipedia describes the thyrsus as "a wand or staff of giant fennel (Ferula communis) covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and always topped with a pine cone":

    Thyrsus.jpg

    So this little knob at the top of Dionysus's thyrsus is a pine cone:
    Faustina Jr Anchialus Dionysos.jpg
    Faustina Jr., 147-175
    Roman provincial AE 9.06 gm; 24.7 mm
    Thrace, Anchialus, AD 147-175
    Obv: ΦΑVCΤΕΙΝΑ ΝΕΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ, Dionysos standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus; panther at feet, left.
    Refs: AMNG 434; Varbanov 90; BMC --; SNG Copenhagen --
     
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  8. Carausius

    Carausius Brother, can you spare a sestertius?

    No pinecones here. Just another lowly acorn.

    ROME, The Republic
    Anonymous, c. 280 BC
    AE Aes Grave Semiuncia (18.91g; 25mm)
    Obv: Acorn
    Rev: Sigma
    Crawford 14/7; ICC 32
    Ex NAC 9 (1996), Lot 440

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