Ancient Secret Santa 2015

I'm just catching up on this thread myself. As far as I'm concerned, fractional silver with good detail is ALWAYS a winner!

 

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That's an Australian Christmas. 40 degrees Celsius here today, and the same for the next few days.

 

Btw - whomever my Secret Santa is ... I have been away from my home town since 18 December, so haven't checked my mailbox. I will announce the present when i get it

 

So the in laws are in town,we had them over tonight, so i'm a little behind. today i pulled the Rib roast out and seasoned it, being a retired meatcutter you have to get the roast and do the seasoning. this is this years roast. 12lb. hand rub minced garlic, seasoned with cracked black pepper, then i rub it with a herb season and retie,yummy.


Tomorrow night we have Chinese food which we have done for years.

Tonight i'm posting my Secret Saturnalia, i received a beautiful card.

and in it was a beautiful coin. My S.S. wanted me to attribute the coin, in a small envelope was hidden from me the info. so i went to wildwinds to see what i could find, after a hour i gave up and went on vcoins and looked for Bigas, Oh ya i cheated, but now your curious.also a very nice note from my S.S.



Roman Republic. ( i didn't find the date, had to cheat) 128BC.
T Cloelius.
Silver denarius,
Obv. helmeted head of Roma right, wreath behind, Roma below.
Rev. Victory in a Biga right, ear of corn below, the rearing horses. T CLOVI in ex.
18mm x 3.78g.
You Roman Republic collectors know this coin, i just love it!!
Oh did you want to see the coin..


I want to Thank You so very much, what an awesome coin, i do have a couple R.R. coins and will have to get more.! Merry Christmas to you and your Family.

 

Coin and roast both look killer, Eng. Merry X'mas!

 

You win the thread . Come on guys, we have to start a new SS thread now.

 

Wow, what a generous gift!

 

John, I love the coin. You really must have been good this year. And that roast! My mouth is salivating.

 

I wish I could gift the symbols of these 4 coins to all CT members and guests.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

Merry Christmas to you C7, hope you and love one's have a great day and many new coins in the coming year!!
We have some very generous people here on this forum, that's why i love it here and to put up with a couple clowns like me and a guy from far North(won't mention any names).

 

For the first time in my life we have 70 F on Christmas eve in Connecticut...

 

very cool here, 40 F windy, lots of rain with some big snow flakes.

 

50 here and calm. Suppose to be 62 tomorrow here in l.a. At least we wont have the rain/hail that was planned a week ago.

 

So wait its warmer in CT then it is in LA...

 

Haha, but it is..

http://gizmodo.com/9-maps-that-show-how-completely-bizarre-your-christmas-1749490826

 

I received my gift about a week ago and originally intended to open tonight…but the suspense is killing me, so I opened it a few hours early.

While the Roman Republic is my first love, my second is archaic Greek coins, and that is what I received -- what a great gift! Who would not treasure a beautiful example of fractional currency from the late 6th c. BC?

Ionia, Miletos
late 6th century BC
Obv: Forepart of lion r., hd. turned back
Rx: Star ornament within incuse square
AR obol (twelfth stater) .9 gm - 9 mm
Such a tiny coin! Makes it difficult to photograph.

Thanks Secret Santa! Your gift is now one of the oldest ancient coins in my collection.

Accompanying the coin was a letter, welcoming me to the Coin Talk community and letting me know what a good girl I have been this year. Truly, I enjoyed the letter as much as the coin. Santa explained that the elves had a hard time striking Roman denarii, but did manage to make great strides in striking coins by producing this archaic lion -- made with Xmas spirit and aged with Xmas magic.

Merry Christmas everyone! This has been great fun, and I cannot wait to do it again next year!!

 

Nice! Santa knows best... everyone needs one of these.

 

Yep, today I'm wearing one of the T-shirts I just brought back from the Virgin Islands. The flowers & insects are hatching in the forest where I live in CT. The snow is probably just delayed until June. Merry Christmas.

I'm looking forward to posting my secret Santa gift this evening.

 

Thompson, MB
Thursday 4:00 PM
Mostly Cloudy

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Precipitation: 0%
Humidity: 84%
Wind: 10 km/h

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=> oooow, next Thursday looks like nice weather, eh?

 

Basically T-shirt weather.