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This is for you Constantine - enjoy my man!

 

Woow! Perfect! Nice fit

 

I'm not done!

 

If only I had an "eyes to heaven"

 

Don't be afraid to watch the video below...some of you may like it!

 

One more...but be scared.

 

I wonder if Vespasian ever had 'cake' by the ocean?





Vespasian
AR Denarius, 3.30g
Antioch Mint, 72-73 AD
RIC 1555 (C), BMC 506, RSC, 274, RPC 1928 (9 spec.)
Obv: IMP CAES VESP AVG P M COS IIII; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r.
Rev: NEP RED; Neptune, naked, standing l., r. foot on globe, r. knee bent, holding acrostolium in r. hand, which rests on r. knee, and vertical sceptre in l. hand

 

Julia Domna
Sestertius, AD 194
21.41 gm, 28.8 mm
Obv: IVLIA DOMNA AVG, bare-headed and draped bust, r.
Rev: VENERI VICTR SC, Venus standing r., holding apple and palm, resting on column.
RIC 842; Sear 6631; BMCRE 488; Hill 113

 

Lol, almost forgot that song! Big Sound 80's

 

I seem to be into these dudes lately ...

 

Dutch band: the George Baker selection:

Kasjmir India coin honouring Jesus. unclear why the Maharadja put it on this Rupee , some think he did it to please Queen / Empress Victoria.

 

My Sassanian, the King of Kings Kavadh I, the ancient world's ultimate hippie dude who embraced vegetarianism, sharing the wealth, and making love...not war.



And for the first hippie in the world, a hippie song to go. I can just imagine that if Kavadh I had been alive in the 1960's, he'd be driving his Ford Mustang to California for a month of anti-war protests, free love, and pot smoking, while listening to this song over his car radio.

 

Very appropriate!

 

This goes right along with the stack of vintage 1966/67 Life and Saturday Evening Posts magazines I've been reading over the last couple of days. Truly a different world.

 

Any Roman coin and this song:


Aurelian (AD 270-275) & Vabalathus (AD 267/268-273). BIL antoninianus (3.69 gm). Antioch, 270-272. Radiate, cuirassed bust of Aurelian right, seen from front, B below / Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Vabalathus right. RIC 381 (My coin, not my picture.)

 

Any time I look at an Alexandrian tetradrachm, I think of this video:


EGYPT. Alexandria. Trajan (AD 98-117). BI tetradrachm (13.62 gm). Dated RY 19 (AD 115/116). Laureate head of Trajan right, star before / Bust of Nilus right, LI - Θ flanking. Emmet 387. Dattari 673.
(My coin, not my picture)



(Warning: This video is PG-13)

Love the song by A Perfect Circle, by the way.

 

"....The fuhrer is dead and Europe is RED!"
Love this song


Here is a coin that goes well with the song.


Rather ironic seeing a communist government issuing money.

 

This coin is full of mysticism and subtle references to the zodiac and mystical revelations according to some researchers:

The elephant is possibly the symbol of the white elephant who reputedly entered in dream the womb the mother of the Buddha which would make it a symbol of Buddhism.

The bull represents the birth of the Buddha, as it happened during the month of Vaicakha (April–May), known to Buddhists as Vezak under the zodiacal sign of the Taurus, during the full moon.



So what song would be appropriate for a coin that represents the moon, zodiac signs, and mystic revelations to the mother of the Buddha?