Best Wishes for a Happy Birthday, Bing! Here's what a Birthday party invitation looked like in Roman Britain, AD 97-103. From the time of Trajan at Vindolanda, a fort along the frontier where Hadrian built his wall. British Museum Collection, image used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Claudia Severa writing her sister, Lepidina: "Claudia Severa to her Lepidina greetings. On 11 September, sister, for the day of the celebration of my birthday, I give you a warm invitation to make sure that you come to us, to make the day more enjoyable for me by your arrival, if you are present. Give my greetings to your Cerialis. My Aelius and my little son send him their greetings. I shall expect you sister. Farewell, sister my dearest soul, as I hope to prosper, and hail." More on Roman Birthday celebrations in this Forbes article from 2016.
Happy birthday, @Bing!!!! Aurelian, Ruled 270-275 AD AE Tetradrachm, Alexandria, Egypt Struck Year 4, 272/273 AD Obverse: A K Λ ΔOM AVPHΛIANOC CEB, Laureate, cuirassed bust right. Reverse: Eagle standing left, head left, wreath in beak, Δ / L (RY 4 = 272/273 AD) in left field, star in right field. References: (Savio) 5470-1; Milne 4381-2; Emmett 3922.4 Size: 21mm, 7.73g Ex: The Bing Collection (February, 2019) (Photo courtesy of Bing)
Happy birthday Bing! Hope we meet again at a FUN show or otherwise when the world normalizes again. John
Happy birthday, dear Bing! Don't know if this link still works but here's a CT oldie... a little Tequila with @Bing, @chrsmat71, @Ancientnoob , @John Anthony, and SteveX6. https://www.jibjab.com/view/make/tequila_edf_group/hquKGphnSOGd5lWQJ7otTw