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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 3500693, member: 83175&quot;]This thread has been bare of late, so here&#039;s a perennial favourite, The Waterboys, and my favourite Eraviscan coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been a few threads on Cointalk about Eraviscan coins, struck in present-day Hungary and based, more or less, on contemporary Roman Republican coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have a few of these and this is the best of them.&nbsp;&nbsp; I really started to collect them as my girlfriend is from Budapest and maybe her very distant ancestors used them - they also fit nicely with the Roman Republican coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. Laureate head of Jupiter right; Rev. RAVIS - Globe between sceptre (resembling thunderbolt) and rudder.&nbsp;&nbsp; 3.35g / 17mm / 9h.&nbsp;&nbsp; References:</p><ul> <li>Torbágyi C11 i</li> <li>Freeman, Essays Hersh, pl. 29, 6</li> </ul><p>The bottom is out of focus, so I must do the obverse again.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_EraviscanDenarius_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_EraviscanDenarius_3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And The Waterboys...&nbsp;&nbsp; Going to uni. in Galway, Ireland in the mid- to late 80s, The Waterboys were huge - &quot;Whole Of The Moon&quot; must have been played at every disco I went to.&nbsp;&nbsp; Their first three albums - &quot;The Waterboys&quot;, &quot;A Pagan Place&quot; and &quot;This Is The Sea&quot; - were the &quot;Big Music&quot; period.&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1988 they moved to Galway and recorded &quot;Fisherman&#039;s Blues&quot;, a major change of direction to more folksy ballads, which cost them some diehard fans, but gained them many more.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mike Scott remains active as The Waterboys and his new music remains essential, mixing folk and rock.&nbsp;&nbsp; I must try to see him again soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, this is &quot;Don&#039;t Bang The Drum&quot;, from &quot;This Is The Sea&quot; (1985).&nbsp;&nbsp; This track brings me back to Dun Aengus in June 1989.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then, after finishing my final exams, I went camping to the Aran Islands with some of my classmates, soon to be ex-classmates.&nbsp;&nbsp; Back in June 1989, the sun shone, we swam in the sea, sang in the pubs, cycled around and visited the sights.&nbsp;&nbsp; For a relatively small island, there are many - bronze age forts, early Christian churches, natural wonders like Poll na bPeist.&nbsp;&nbsp; Every field has a name and a story - see Tim Robinson&#039;s &quot;Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage&quot; and &quot;Labyrinth&quot; for wonderful descriptions of the island and esoteric discussions on maps, cosmology and the nature of time - &quot;Time, in such places as London, is a disease of the wristbone; one sees sufferers glance anxiously at the glittering lump. I had come to Aran to escape the infection, and bitterly resented its outbreak here.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyway, Dun Aengus is a semicircular fortress which we&#039;re told was begun around 1100BC, with the diameter protected not by a wall, but by a 100m vertical fall into the Atlantic.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the 19th century, George Petrie described it as &quot;the most magnificent barbaric monument extant in Europe&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; A posse of early archaeologists and historians visited in the 1840s (?) and made speeches on the spot about a doomed civilisation, having fled the mainland, building their temples and fortresses against the Atlantic, watching the setting sun as they awaited their own doom.&nbsp;&nbsp; By all accounts, the visitors then enjoyed a great feast.&nbsp;&nbsp; The outer walls cover 13 acres; inside, there&#039;s a defensive screen of stone chevaux de frise, though it&#039;s unlikely there was ever any mounted threat, and finally the massive semi-circular fort itself.&nbsp;&nbsp; We spent a few hours there, lay down with our heads over the edge and sat with our legs dangling over.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For years afterwards, I had a recurring dream that I was running towards the edge, unable to stop - I&#039;d wake up with my legs jerking, glad to find myself in my own bed.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve been back since, but have stayed a little further from the edge than on that day in 1989.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Don&#039;t Bang The Drum&quot; may evoke nothing in others, or something different, but for me, this is poetry - &quot;emotion recollected in tranquillity&quot; as Wordsworth wrote.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I close my eyes, with the music playing, I&#039;m back in Dun Aengus, on the edge of the cliff, I&#039;m 21 and life is good <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Now we stand in a special place, What will you do here?, What show of soul are we gonna get from you?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Ztk2lvTN7ZA[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Image shamelessly borrowed from somewhere on the web:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://blog.irishtourism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Dun-Aonghas-Arial-View-Cropped-1024x631.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>Aidan.</p><p>(I rambled a bit!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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