Post an Old Coin and an Old Tune...

Well I got to say - that was entertaining ..
This can be a pretty cool thread to link some off the wall stuff that members from other countries haven't heard. Throw it back at us!!
Oh the early '90's!!!!.. give this one a minute..

 

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Great thread – also, it's good to see that most ancient coin collectors appear to have an excellent taste when it comes to music.

I never found an opportunity to post the coin below here on CT, and I also hadn't listened to the song below for a long time, despite it being a favorite from some years ago. Fortunately, it played on the radio when I was driving in my car earlier today, and I remembered how much I liked it:


Arse (Saguntum), Iberia, Edetani tribe (under Roman rule), AE quadrans, ca. 170–120 BC. Obv: scallop. Rev: "AIUBaS" in Iberian letters; dolphin; above, three pellets. 17mm, 4.13g. Ref: Álvarez-Burgos 2008 (ABH) 2051.

 

Sol Advancing...

Aurelian, AD 270-275, Antoninianus, Rome mint, 1st officina, 11th emission, AD 275
Obv: Radiate and cuirassed bust right\
Rev: Sol advancing right, holding branch and bow, trampling captive; A//XXIR
Ref: RIC V 64

and this song seems appropriately paired (and therapeutically upbeat), remastered on the 50th anniversary, "Here Comes the Sun"...

 

Another just fun pop song.

This song was HAMMERING the radio when I was taking my 2nd daughter home when she was born... (it was even at nite) I found this coin, as her name is Anna:

"I feel the Hunger" sung in the song reminded me of her voracious appetite as a baby





India East India Company 1818 Half Anna counter token

 

Great sestertius; only wish I had pics of the one Marcus Aurelius I got, after which I was kind of done. (With medieval as my center of gravity.) Sorry for that. ...Well, mostly for not having pictures. The reverse celebrates victories over Parthia. No rest for the Stoic, I guess.
...Except, what Is it, just exactly, with Canadians and song writing? This is one track from the one Bruce Cockburn album that anyone needs to s sustain intelligent life.

 

Paul McCartney

Fun ditty song.

Sally G was from Printer's Alley, Nashville, TN. Really enjoyed living in the area for 10 years.

I believe Paul's wife was on vocals in the song.



Looks ancient, but almost as modern as all of America's coins...


Bhutan AE Half-Rupee 21mm 4.8g Period III 1835-1910 CE Geometric patterns letter SaRef KM 7.1

 

...Oh, Cover the Kids' Ears, I was listening to that this last week, along with Ella, "Sentimental Reasons." You're messing with my head.

 

How about a brand new song from an old -- and aging -- artist? Just heard this for the first time. It takes its title from Walt Whitman.

 

He is one of the most underrated guitar players alive. I saw him live a number of years ago. A brilliant show.

 

Wow. Nearest I got to his guitar work was a solo at the end of a show on PBS. Had to wait through the credits to find out who that was.
...Well, wait. For Canadian guitarists who were underrated, at least if you go back long enough, there was Neil Young. Right, starting with the electric stuff. "Zuma" has some of the best distortion in the literature.

 

..i was listenin' to Blind Faith and Traffic just yesterday.....as a matter of fact, i'm goin now to turn on some Steve solo and hear also some low spark of high heeled boys...

 

I meant to contribute this early, but the school year has started and has sapped my attention! I got this beauty a few years ago:


French Feudal - Toulouse
William IX of Aquitaine, second reign r. 1109-1117
AR Denier, 18.82 mm x 1.1 grams
Obv.: VVILELMO COME, Cross Pattee in center, S in second quarter
Rev.: +TOLOSA CIVI around, PAX in center
Ref.: Duplessy 1210 (as William IV), Roberts 4225 (As William IX), De Wit 439 (as William IV)

and what better old tune to pair it with, than one written by the same man who issued the coin??


we have the lyrics to the song, but the actual tune is the interpretation of Brice Durcit who recorded this rendition on a traditional instrument (I love this album of his)

 

FitzNigel, many thanks for the elevating the tone a little! --Even if only a little, in light of how racy his lyrics can get.
...Sadly, I can't find any pics of my example (...running into that on an ongoing basis). But this is the best website for the lyrics that I've ever run across.
http://www.midi-france.info/190401_guilhem.htm
...It did cross my mind, what if someone did a thread here for Classical (.../Baroque and Early) or Jazz?

 

...Right, to wallow in the obvious, the great thing about the deniers of Toulouse is that, like John in Ireland and Richard I in (ironically) Poitou and Bordeaux /Aquitaine, this is the only issue in William's name. For Poitou, he's contemporaneous to the middle phases of the immobilizations of Melle, in the name of Charles the Simple.

 

An old tune but a NEW version released just today. Bet you can't help singing along!



And an old coin -- had this one since the 80s:

 

Lol, Looking Glass “Brandy” ... good times!

 

These Singing Dogs from New Guinea were thought to be extinct. I understand they recently found them in the wild.

Got a good beat, Blue says you could dance to it... She gives it a 7.




RR Aes Grave AE Quadrans 269-242 BCE Dog 3 pellets Six spoked wheel 59.8g Craw 24-6a Th-Vecchi 34 ex Sellwood

 

This live version recorded 25 years after the original is really quite amazing....
they look to be having a lot of fun reliving their youth...

 

Here's my oldest coin so far:



550-456 BC
Aegina, Saronic Islands, Greece
Silver Obol
BMC Attica p.135, 115
Sea turtle with smooth shell and row of dots down the middle.
8mm, 0.692 g


And a very old tune to accompany it:

 

Excellent clip and a great denarius! First a coin and then another example of a singing bass player.