Post an Old Coin and an Old Tune...

I've had this LRB since I don't know when (my computer crashed c. 2006 and I lost all my records).


Constantine I, AD 307-337.
Roman Æ Centenionalis, 2.59 g, 18.4 mm.
Aquileia, AD 321.
Obv: CONSTAN-TINVS AVG, laureate head right.
Rev: D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, laurel wreath around VOT XX; ·AQ · below.
Refs: RIC vii, p. 404, no. 85; RCV 16216; Cohen 123.

There are so many good old songs to choose from. How about this one from 45 years ago?



"Rikki don't lose that number" was Steely Dan's highest-charting hit, reaching No.4 in 1974. It's based on a riff from Horace Silver’s 1965 jazz classic, "Song for my Father." Sorry the video is disabled from playing here; just click on the "Watch on YouTube link."

 

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Philippe VI, roi de France 1328-1350. Gros à la fleur de lis, c. 1341 -1343. (Duplessy, Royales 2263, with numerous variants. ...No, it's too late to be squinting over them, in the complete absence of natural daylight.)
Right, except, remember the flower.

 

Truth is sometimes not for the woke folks....

 

This is an old coin. In fact, it was the first sestertius I ever purchased -- from a brick and mortar coin shop perhaps thirty years ago. I lost its provenance when my computer crashed c. 2006.


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 statuette and wand," (La Concorde? debout à gauche, tenant une statuette et une baguette) is almost certainly a badly described specimen of this type.

And while we're talking of old favorites, "The Dark Side of the Moon" is among my most favorite albums. And this is my favorite song on the album (hard to narrow down because there are so many excellent songs on the album). The song is now 52 years old. It was originally written on the piano by Richard Wright for the film "Zabrinskie Point" in 1969 and was titled "The Violent Sequence." The song was turned down by Michelangelo Antonioni, the film's director, because it was "too sad" and it reminded him of church.

Roger Waters added the lyrics and the song was rerecorded with complex instrumentation and released in 1973 on "The Dark Side of the Moon." Here's the song. It has more than 14 million views, 7 million of which are mine, with @TIF being responsible for the remainder!



Here's "The Violent Sequence" for comparison.

 

Brilliant juxtaposition of tunes, @Roman Collector. And a sweet sestertius.
This will be lame, but here goes. Gros tournois of my last Capetian ancestor in the direct line, Philippe le troisieme, 1270-1285.


Followed by what's still, to my taste, the best reading of my all-time favorite prelude from Francois Couperin's L'art de toucher de clavecin that's easily findable on YouTube. (Published 1716 --if memory serves, Bach was in correspondence with him ...along with Vivaldi, from whom Bach stole, shamelessly.) Yep, just because they're both French.