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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2328371, member: 57495&quot;]I&#039;m showing a 2015 purchase here, but it took several tries for me to get a halfway decent picture of this coin.&nbsp; Nothing fancy here, just a Thracian provincial with a wonderful portrait of our favorite philosopher-king as a handsome young man.&nbsp; The reverse is a plain Apollo standing type, and unfortunately a little flat in the centre, but it has some really nice third dimensional depth in the smaller details like the phiale and bow.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]471701[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>MARCUS AURELIUS</b></p><p>AE Diassarion</p><p>10.44g, 26mm</p><p>THRACE, Philippopolis, circa AD 139-161</p><p>Varbanov 805</p><p>O: Μ ΑVΡΗΛΙΟC ΟVΗΡΟC ΚΑΙCΑΡ, bare head of Marcus Aurelius to right, with neat beard. </p><p>R: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, Apollo, nude, standing left, holding a phiale in his right hand and his bow in his left.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for the bread baking bit - my wife started reading Marcus Aurelius&#039;s <i>Meditations </i>recently, and yesterday showed me a passage which resonated strongly with her:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>&quot;We ought to observe also that even the things which follow after the things which are produced according to nature contain something pleasing and attractive.&nbsp; For instance, when bread is baked some parts are split at the surface, and these parts which thus open, and have a certain fashion contrary to the purpose of the baker&#039;s art, are beautiful in a manner, and in a peculiar way excite a desire for eating...&quot;</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>She&#039;s a serious bread baker, and much better at it than I am at coin collecting, so I&#039;m happy to show off one of her loaves that illustrates what Aurelius was talking about.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]471702[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>He didn&#039;t know it as <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/wabisabi.html" rel="nofollow">Wabi Sabi</a>, but he was clearly familiar with the idea.&nbsp; I suppose he could just as well have used coins to make his point, but then my wife wouldn&#039;t be thinking he was quite so cool <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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