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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8046430, member: 75937&quot;]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.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-avgvsta-vesta-standing-sestertius-jpg.939842/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.57 g, 32.0 mm.</p><p>Rome, AD 145-147.</p><p>Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AVGVSTA S C, Vesta veiled, standing left, holding palladium and scepter.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1124; BMCRE 1519-20; Cohen 110 = 122 corr.; Strack 1294; RCV 4617.</p><p>Notes: Cohen 122 (Wiczay): &quot;Concordia? standing l., holding statuette and wand,&quot; (La Concorde? debout à gauche, tenant une statuette et une baguette) is almost certainly a badly described specimen of this type.</p><p><br /></p><p>And while we&#039;re talking of old favorites, &quot;The Dark Side of the Moon&quot; is among my most favorite albums. And this is my favorite song on&nbsp; 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 &quot;Zabrinskie Point&quot; in 1969 and was titled &quot;The Violent Sequence.&quot; The song was turned down by Michelangelo Antonioni, the film&#039;s director, because it was &quot;too sad&quot; and it reminded him of church.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roger Waters added the lyrics and the song was rerecorded with complex instrumentation and released in 1973 on &quot;The Dark Side of the Moon.&quot; Here&#039;s the song. It has more than 14 million views, 7 million of which are mine, with [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] being responsible for the remainder! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]GKiLEgAzFDQ[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s &quot;The Violent Sequence&quot; for comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]AifVYZcCACA[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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