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Good luck and have a great career.

 

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Good luck!

 

Best of luck, stay safe, and thank you for your service.

 

Best of luck to you, @hotwheelsearl, as you enter this new phase of life. I have a friend -- now retired after 25 years with the Navy -- who was a USN oceanographer.

Here's my favorite nautical coin:


Gratian, AD 367-383.
Roman Æ maiorina, 5.90 g, 21.4 mm, 11 h.
Constantinople, AD 383.
Obv: D N GRATIA-NVS P F AVG, helmeted, draped and cuirassed bust, right, holding spear and shield.
Rev: GLORIA RO-MANORVM, Emperor standing facing, head right, on ship, raising right hand. Victory seated at helm. No wreath in field; in exergue, CONΓ.
Refs: RIC 52a (unlisted officina).

 

Fare Thee Well, @hotwheelsearl - my Dad was a Captain and retired after 30 years of service. One thing he mentioned is that the first time he crossed the equator in the South Pacific as an ensign on the U.S.S. Black there was a celebration featuring Neptune and his bride, accompanied with lots of beer. He also attended the same OCS in Rhode Island as you are going to attend.

Septimius Severus, A.R. Denarius, Rome mint, 210 C.E.

3.3 grams, 19.1 mm

Obverse: Laureate head right, SEVERVS PIVS AVG

Reverse: PMTRP XVIII COS III PP

Neptune standing left, nude but for cloak over left shoulder and right arm, right foot on rock, right arm resting on right knee, trident vertical behind in left hand.

 

Awesome, @hotwheelsearl , and good luck to you!

my Grandfather was Navy during WWII, was in kamakaze attacks, his ship was a temporary Flagship for Halsey, at many of the major engagements from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima. He carved his engagements on his knife sheath, and I was able to read all but one.

Here is an Unusual RUDDER version



Rome.
Lead tessera c. 1st cent. AD
Fortuna standing left, resting rudder on ground with right hand, holding cornucopia in left
Large DP
Rostovtsev 2307; Ruggerio 808-9; 13mm, 1.39 g, 12h; good VF
Ex Tom Vossen collection of Roman lead objects.
Ex: Gert Boersema Ancient Coins (NL)

 

CONGRATULATIONS! Thank you for starting your service. As a Marine, we need more Sailors to transport us - After all. The USN is the Chauffeur service for the Marines! LOL and Semper Fi

 

Good luck and enjoy your new career. Get back to us when you are able. I am not an Ancients collector but here are three seafarers for you. Explorer, military and Governor

 

Good luck!

 

Here are a few -

Staius Murcus, 42-41 BC, head of Neptune


Brutus, 42 BC, head of Neptune



Sextus Pompey, 42-40 BC, hopefully you never run into Scylla!



Ahenobarbus, 41-40 BC, prow and trophy.

Good luck, @hotwheelsearl !

 

Good luck! Here is a coin with a nautical scene:
Obv.: IMP C ALLECTVS PF AVG
Rev.: VIRTVS AVG -- QC
Mint: Colchester
RIC 55ff

These coins are sometimes called Quinarius. Are they really a different denomination from the usual Antoninian?

 

Congrats and good luck


Gratianus, AE 2 - Cyzicus mint, 5th officina
D N GRATIA NVS P F AVG, Diademed, helmeted and draped bust of Gratianus right
GLORIA ROMANORUM, Gratianus standing left on a prow of galley, driven by a victory. Wreath in shield, SMK gamma at exergue
5.68 gr
Ref : Cohen #25, RC #4138, LRBC #2548

Q

 

Congratulations, @hotwheelsearl; I wish you nothing but the best for OCS and your future career.

I don’t have any nautical-themed ancients. However, this should fit the bill quite nicely (no pun intended).

 

Wish you the best in your career Since I cannot swim, I will stay on land
Here is a shipwreck salvage AV 8 Escudos 1751-So (Santiago Mint) Fernando VI of Spain/ Colonial Chile Mint.
ex: Luz shipwreck CH-MS

 

congrats and good luck, I like this comparison of the ships on the reverse of coins of the RR & Pereus

 

That is the way to go. My father joined the U.S. Navy when he was 17. His father had to sign for him. That was 1942. He was in training when Pearl Harbor was struck. (I was born in the Navy Hospital in Hawaii.) During WWII he was the corpsman on a submarine in the South Pacific. (He was the doctor on board.) After WW II, He enlisted in the Army. He was stationed at Landstuhl Army Hospital. He was sent to Korea during the Korea "War". During the Vietnam "Conflict" he was the doctor on a fire base. He served for 32 Years. He had a Bronze Star, Silver Star and 3 Purple Hearts among other decorations. After 3 wars he lived through, he was killed when a drunk truck driver ran over him in his car.
My brother served 20+ years in the Navy. He had 3 tours on a ship in Vietnam. His ship was fired upon several times. My bother was wounded several times. He doesn't talk about his service. He has PTSD, sleeps on the floor and has difficulty talking about his service.
I am very proud of my father's and brother's willingness to serve.
As for me, I was drafted in 1968. I took Basic Training at Fort Bragg, NC, Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Dix, NJ, Jump School at Fort Benning, GA with "permanent duty" at Fort Bragg, NC, 82nd Airborne Division, 3rd Brigade, "Courts and Boards", Staff Judge Advocate, all because they found out I could type.
Due to the "Sullivan Act" from WW II, my Brigade Commander, Colonel Greer, pulled all orders, transferring me to Vietnam. I serve 2 years at a desk.
That is the reason I admire your service. Our hearts and Prayers will be with you.

 

Best of luck...

 

Congratulations @hotwheelsearl that is really to be very proud of.

Wish you all the success and satisfaction in this awesome career with the US Navy.

May Poseidon bring always safe and gentle waters.

AΥT•K•KΛAΥΔIOC•CЄB Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right /
Poseidon standing left, right foot resting on dolphin, holding torch (variously described as grain ear, sword, ship's ram, aphlaston) in right hand and trident in left; across fields regnal year LB

 

Congratulations GO NAVY... "You'll be back" be safe. Thanks for serving!

 

Congratulations and Godspeed. You've got a lot of hard work ahead of you, and if you're of a mind to and are permitted a cell phone in the off hours you can access Coin Talk from it!