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

I cant choose a single favorite coin; I love them all in a different way.
Here is my most recent favorite coin
Valentinian I AR Siliqua
Antioch mint 2.1 Grams




As for music? There are way too many options for me to choose from, so I will post this.

I know, I am an odd cookie

 

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My favourite coin is my 'next' one.

My favourite tune is Merrilee Rush's version of "Angel of The Morning"

 

I was seven when that song was released and remember it well-- the song was so funny and weird. Yodeling rockers, really?!

A few years later when I started playing guitar it was fun to play along, although the quick chord changes were tough for a newbie.

 

Mag Max => that is an interesting engine-drone you've chosen (it is very hypnotic)

 

I know right! I feel that it transports me back in time to 1942/3 during a bombing run.

 

Cool ...

My Dad flew a Lancaster during WWII (RCAF) ..... he's 92 and still kickin'

 

That is awesome! It took a certain breed of men to do what he did.

 

Same here,Steve. My Dad trained in Canada in 1939 and joined the R.A.F. as a Flight Lieutenant, Pilot Officer, and flew, Hudsons, Ansons, Wellingtons and Lancasters and many times he joined the Americans with their B17s. He is alive and kicking at 95y.o. but won't talk about it. I have to read his flying log. He is also written up in the book "ATTACKER" The Hudson and its flyers, by Geoffrey Jones. He was still flying them when I was born. We lived next to the base.

 

@Topcat7
WOW!
That is so cool!
I was watching this last night with a sense of fear and awe.

 

That's awesome, Topcat ... we're birds of a feather, in more ways than one!!

NOTE: My Dad would be very disappointed in me, for when I just went back and looked-up some of his old stuff, I remembered that he actually flew a Halifax bomber, not a Lancaster (please don't tell him!!)





Oh, and your cool dad-photo made me hunt down his sweet album ...

=> here is a cool photo from an album that my older brother made for all of the other siblings (not unlike your Dad, my Pa never talked about his bombing-days, but he did let loose one long-weekend and told my older brother all about it ... so my bro rocked and recorded that weekend's discussions and created "Dad's Air Force Bible" ... very cool)





... he's sooooo cool

 

@ Steve. You're not going to believe this but i think that your Dad and mine may have flown together. I will look it up.

No, it was a 'Jim' Peterson in Dad's crew. Your Dad?

 

Ben Lane Peterson (ol' B.L.)

=> Rockstar!!

 

Nothing like old war stories to pass the time.
Or old coins!
Maurice Tiberius AV Lightweight Solidus
4.12g

I think this song aptly describes my mood.

 

That would have been TOO much of a coincidence.
We should be grateful to ALL veterans, from ALL theatres; those that made it and those that didn't, for their contribution to our life as we know it. "Lest We Forget"

 

Exactly, Mag Max ... ummm, where were we?

Oh yeah => cha-ching!!

ISLANDS OFF CARIA, RHODOS, Æ35 DRACHM
Circa 31 BC-60 AD
Diameter: 35 mm
Weight: 21.87 grams
Obverse: Radiate head of young Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath
Reberse: Nike standing right on prow, holding aplustre and wreath
Reference: Ashton, 'Rhodian coinage in the imperial period,' Recent Turkish Coin Hoards and Numismatic Studies, 110-112. N.
Other: R. S. Collection

 

Ummmm, it's probably wrong that I've gone back and listened to Babymetal a few times, right?

 

I felt exactly the same way, except it may have been more than a few times.

 

Favourite coin:
Cilicia, Tarsus: Balbinus, 238 AD. AE 36 mm, 24.31 gm. Obv: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Rev: Pupienus(?), radiate, on horseback right, casting javelin at lion leaping right beneath with head left; A in legend, M/K and G/B in fields. SNG Levante Supp. 280 (this coin); SNG France 1630.


And favourite song - "Ashes to Ashes" by God (i mean David Bowie):
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=david+bowie+ashes+to+ashes+official+video

 

I just discovered this great thread. The free horse on this coin

seems to go with this song:

It has been in my top three since the first time I heard it. The lyrics, Chris Rea's hauntingly raspy voice, the piano solo at 2:54, leading to the rousing guitar/orchestral finale from 4:29 to the end (complete with glider ride on this video!) get me every time...

 

You guys have some great military memorabilia, especially since it comes from family. Thanks for sharing it!