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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5952579, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks so much to all of you for your very kind words and for the coins you posted. I apologize for not responding to each of you, but when I got home last night I wasn&#039;t even able to read the thread, let alone post on it. (I see I&#039;m not the only one for whom CT wasn&#039;t properly functioning last night.) [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER], I fixed the error on when I joined. I promise it really was only one year ago; I put down 2019 because I&#039;m still not completely used to &quot;last year&quot; being 2020 rather than 2019.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll post my only other coin meeting my own request for a Roman husband and wife on the same side of a coin; I bought it because it was my only way of obtaining a coin depicting Tranquillina at anything like a reasonable cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III with wife Tranquillina, AE 26 mm., 241-244 AD, Thracia, Anchialus [Pomorie, Bulgaria]. Obv. Confronted busts of Gordian III right, laureate, draped and cuirassed, and Tranquillina left, draped and wearing stephane; ΑVT Κ M ANT / ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ clockwise around; CEB TPAN // KVΛΛINA in exergue; border of dots/ Rev. Apollo standing left, holding patera in right hand; left arm resting on column; ΟΥΛΠΙΑΝωΝ / ΑΓXΙΑΛEωΝ&nbsp; clockwise around; border of dots. RPC Online VII.2 48961; Moushmov 2939; Varbanov II 668; AMNG II 656. 26 mm., 11.91 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1243796[/ATTACH]</p><p>I would think that there must be other couples on Roman coins besides Caracalla-Plautilla and Gordian III-Tranquillina, but I don&#039;t specifically know of any. Does anyone?</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: I did get my first Covid vaccination last night at the Javits Center; it turned out to be the Pfizer vaccine and everything was fine.&nbsp; My son came along to keep me company and in case I didn&#039;t feel well afterwards.&nbsp; But not only did I feel absolutely nothing when I got the shot (Me: &quot;I didn&#039;t feel anything!&quot; Nurse: &quot;That&#039;s because I&#039;m good!&quot; Me: &quot;Yes you are!&quot;), but I felt nothing afterwards, not even a sore arm. And nothing since then except a slight sore arm about 6 am today that was gone an hour or so later. My next shot is already scheduled for Feb. 19, and I&#039;m looking forward to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was personally pleased, but somewhat disappointed in a general sense, that there seemed to be only a few dozen other people getting vaccinated at the Javits Center while I was there. Hopefully it was just that it was in the evening and/or because they limited appointments due to an anticipated supply shortage (fortunately, a lot more came to NY during the week), and not because of a lack of demand. It was quite a surreal scene, like some weird movie -- a giant, quiet, mostly empty convention center the size of a few airplane hangars, with more staff than &quot;patients,&quot; and the staff largely consisting (in addition to the people taking information and administering the shots) of very pleasant young National Guardsman in their uniforms stationed every 30 feet or so to point you in the right direction, tell you where to sit, etc.&nbsp; Plus the yellow arrows on the floor telling you the same thing.&nbsp; Plus my glasses kept fogging up and I could barely see anything throughout! In general, though, if I were to give a Yelp review of the experience, I&#039;d give it 5 stars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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