Post an Old Coin and an Old Tune...

Orfew, that is just Too (imaginary, anyway redundant expletive) Good.
For the songwriting, Tom Waits (...for No One) is a lot like --who, maybe Bruce Cockburn?-- might have sounded like, after a couple of decades of living in a hotel in Las Vegas. Here's the one of his that I need first. ...But Only First!

 

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We're all forgetting to add coins!!

 

The evolution kept going...

 

...Soooo Busted. Okay, here's one. My example of Raymond Roupen, the half-Cilician Armenian who briefly fell into the Principality of Antioch, before Bohemond IV restored the dynastic status quo. This was from Chris Sabine, numismatist extraordinaire, by way of Ebay.

 

Nice one!.. gotta crank this:

 

...Well, except I'm back to needing some more Ska revival.

And that was my example of a Bohemond IV. (And for tonight, I'm kind of All Done with arguing with the formatting. ...Or, back to Tom Waits, arguing more generally.) Attributed to Bohemond III on US ebay, but it looks a Lot like a Metcalf / Malloy Class J.

 

Just, Dang, Too Good. I couldn't think of any one good track for Jamaican ska, but this is more along the lines of rocksteady to early reggae.

 

...But, Wait! That's Ptolemaic, but What is the counterstamp? Sorry if someone in the forum (...you, maybe?) already identified it.

 

A super cool Trident countermark... don't know much about it - other than it's pretty awesome. I haven't seen another like it - but then again I'm a beginner.

 

This is an old coin -- my first sestertius. I fell in love with its smooth black patina and it resulted in a lifelong Faustina fascination!


Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.
Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.57 g, 32.0 mm.
Rome, AD 145-147.
Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: AVGVSTA S C, Vesta veiled, standing left, holding palladium and scepter.
Refs: RIC 1124; BMCRE 1519-20; Cohen 110 = 122 corr.; Strack 1294; RCV 4617.
Notes: Cohen 122 (Wiczay): "Concordia? standing l., holding statue and wand," (La Concorde? debout à gauche, tenant une statuette et une baguette) is almost certainly a badly described specimen of this type.

And here's a song from the days of Dream Academy, Style Council, The Specials, Joy Division, etc., but out of Canada:

 

Thomas Mozzillo, I need to thank you for this track. Saw the first local PBS broadcast of the concert. ...One could only wish that during fund drives, they'd play this kind of thing endlessly, instead of the latest pop psychologist / amateur theologian / guru.

 

...And, Oh No, thank Covid, but I'm just rediscovering how good this whole album is. (I have some other Ali Farka Toure --Allah rest his soul*-- the best being 'Radio Mali,' a rerelease of his stuff for the national radio station in the early '70's.)


*...Thank you, if you were a Coptic Christian, it would be entirely legal to say that.

 

Claudius II, 268-270
IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG
NEPTVN AVG
Neptune standing, holding dolphin and trident.
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Oldie but still a fav..not an instrument to be heard.. 1983:

 

Got this one from Jonathan K. Kern more than 20 years ago.


Otacilia Severa, AD 244-249
Roman AR antoninianus, 3.96 g, 23.1 mm, 12 h.
Rome, AD 246-248.
Obv: M OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right, on crescent.
Rev: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae.
Refs: RIC 125c; Cohen 14; RCV 9147; CRE 522.


And since it's the 13th of ZEPP-tember, I bring you this old tune:

 

I used to collect more Celtic coins, but the only ones I've got recently that could be lumped in the Celtic category are Eraviscan coins.

Here's a drachm of the Hercuniates, a people of Southwest Hungary.

Obv. Head of Zeus right, beaded border
Rev. Crested horseman left
ca 2nd/1st century BC
Wt./Size/Axis: 2.42g / 14mm / -
References:

• LT 9842
• BMC 91-98

Provenances:

• Dr Miklos Hoka Collection

Acquisition/Sale: Celtic Coins Online Store Liz's List 69 #4 17-Feb-2014


I fell into the YouTube rabbit hole recently, as a result of a song that was playing on the radio and ended up at the Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho:



Or a live version - this was from an apparently amazing gig in 1988 (most of it is on YouTube in 4 parts):



Oh well, why not a third one - originally written by Shane for "Sid & Nancy", with Cáit O'Riordan singing; this is with Sinéad O'Connor:



Right - time for my evening perambulation...

ATB,
Aidan.

 

Kinda appropriate for self-quarantining times...




Pamphylia-Side 190-36 BCE AE 15mm Minerva R - Nike L wreath Sear Grk 5440 SNG Cop 408ff

 

An great old tune from the '90s .. which is reminiscing about the '70s.. what could be better?

 

Well I don't know about you... but I will be bringing out the popcorn to watch the Roma XX sale on October 29/30...