I guess we can all fool people into thinking that we frequent fancy museums. https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/once-you-make-it-through-these-pictures-of-roman-coins-1825121253 Would it be playing right into their hands to point out that some of the coins are Greek?
I don't get their point : I guess people wouldn't care at all with me going to museums for looking at coins ! Q
I think that is there point-- no one bothers to look at coins at a museum, and that most people don't go to museums in the first place.
I think the satire is pretty broad—a bit of a send-up of anyone who would care about these sorts of things in the first place. A bit of an anti-intellectual gesture, though humorously so. Perhaps more narrowly, it might be a send-up of people who want to be thought intellectual but who do not want to do the hard work of actually being so. But when I start to parse the intent of humor, it loses all capacity to be funny. So perhaps I should just let the mystery be.
Greek or Roman it's all just swords and sandals to most young people. If you want to make a point about the ancient Greeks you need to mention Gerard Butler. If you're referring to ancient Romans you need to say Russell Crowe
Yes. And to all women enamoured of Gerard Butler's abs in that film, allow me to point out that they were generated by a computer, not in a gym.
Wish it were mine . https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=365632 Choice Dynastic Issue CNG 109, Lot: 632. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. Claudius, with Nero as Caesar. AD 41-54. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.57 g, 3h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 51. TI CLAVD • CAESAR • AVG • GERM • P M • TRIB POT • P P, laureate head of Claudius right / NERO CLAVD CAES DRVSVS GERM PRINC IVVENT •, bareheaded and draped bust of young Nero left. RIC I 83 (Rome); von Kaenel Type 51 (unlisted dies); Lyon 85/1a (D402/R420); RSC 5; BMCRE 80-1 (Rome); BN 89-90; Bourgey (16 December 1913), lot 75 (same dies). Good VF, old cabinet tone. Rare. From the WRG Collection. Ex Delta Collection (Coin Galleries, 13 November 1991), lot 485; Spink & Galerie des Monnaies (15 February 1977), lot 292.
