EROTIC SPINTRIA

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Wow, good to know. It's like they just don't exist... I'll go back to the Ginger or Mary Ann thread...

 

..if your country's the US, its a republic...

 

..is that a Gilligans Isle reference?!?..

 

The token looks fake to me anyway. Can't think of any other Roman coin or token with an oval frame and a reverse like that. And it's not related, other than by the scene depicted, to the erotic spintriae series as those almost always have numbers on the reverse.

 

...and if its not allowed to be linked then its not allowed to be thought about either... I guess...

 

One of the very first posts I made here 6 years ago was something like this and I got repremanded. Is it REALLY such a chore not to do this??? Chose your battles wisely.

 

I'm really surprised this thread has gone on as long as it has. It really shouldn't have. Re-read all the above and you may glean some information, but alas, some seem to think that they have control where they do not. Dont kid yourselves, you are not in control, you never have been and will not be. That is how it is, and always will be here in CT. Its in the Terms of Agreement. Get with it.

Now...I am certainly no prude. Never have been nor will be. I am not offended by the item in question. HOWEVER, I do have a young daughter in the house. I am on CT each day, and I view it on my desktop (a large format monitor) in my living room, where my daughter is often looking at what I am doing. So....no big surprise, I dont want explain to an 11 year old just what is going on in 'that picture'.

No, I dont want it for that reason. But, if it were still there I would hope that the thread topic would mention something about it and that I could read it 'after hours'.

Oh, and BTW, it would appear that this whole thing was just an advertising ploy anyway. Did we all just fall into a spammers web? Well, some of us did.

 

I couldn't resist going off and finding an image of the coin.

It's been a long time, but my memories aren't that fuzzy -- if I'd seen that image as an 11-year-old, or even a hormone-addled 15-year-old, I don't think it would have registered at all. It's recognizable if you know what you're looking for; otherwise, it looks to me like a rather crude but generic image of two people, with some extra blobs here and there.

I really wish our society didn't lose its collective cool over depictions like this, while glorifying and popularizing images of violence and suffering. But it is what it is, I don't expect to see substantial change in my remaining lifetime, and I certainly don't want to waste my time or the mods' campaigning about it here.

Meanwhile, I agree that it looks like the OP had an agenda, and he really wasn't getting the message. Well, bye.

 

My wife hypothesized the whole mess of this thread was done on purpose to either increase the interest in something the OP had for sale or more likely just to cause the uproar on CT that it did. if so, then the poster was successful.

 

I have precisely both in my house (those exact ages, girl and boy). My son I could uncomfortably laugh it off. My daughter, no, I am not gong to go there. Not even slightly. So, I applaud the moderators.

 

Ohh I’m late to the party! Can someone please privately msg me a link to the coin in question?

 

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I’ve seen it now. I have no idea what the fuss is about, but rules are rules I guess.

 

Can't agree more. These tokens are almost always forgeries. The one shown was a fake without any doubt.
There are reproductions from the salacious 16th century, from the Victorian 19th century and from modern times too - thousands of them. The originals were made during only a short time in the first century, not many survived the teeth of time since.
There's an excellent article by Geoffrey Fishburn (free to download at Scribd) summing up various theories on spintriae. I would advise those with a scientific interest in this matter, to read it.

 

After reading this excruciating thread I thought, oh shucks, that kills off my idea for a "Antinous' Cuirass" post.

 

Is it just me, or do a lot of things in this auction look ‘too good to be true?’