Featured Sports! Best album of the 80s and theme of this post!

Just class and beauty from you everytime out @TIF . I throw a house party, and when you show up it turns into a full on ball!
That's enough Olympic silver to melt down and make yourself a medal!
Ps, thanks for the link. Very cool article

 

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O ok..well back in the day of top 40 i've only heard Rod sing it...

 

Apene races were first held at the Olympic Games around 500 BC. Isn't that right? The tyrant Anaxilas, apparently had an Olympic mule-team victory in 480 B.C. and I'm told he commemorated it with this coin type. The design is associated with Messana and the design was kept after Anaxilas’ death in 476 BC.

SICILY, Messana
AR Tetradrachm
480-461 BC

17.21 grams, 25 mm.
Obv: Biga of mules (an apene) driven right by seated charioteer. Nike above crowning mules.
Rev: Hare bounding to right with spray of olive beneath. MEΣΣA.ИIOИ. (retrograde Ns)
Grade: a nicely toned Good Fine coin with claims to aVF.
Other: Similar to Sear 843 & 847. SNGANS.314. From Pegasi Jan 2014.

 

very kool coin!..i've never seen one with the charioteer sitting..

 

An utterly pointless observation, but this is probably the least inopportune moment I'll ever have to make it -- a lot of the Hellenistic rulers had quite an '80s sort of appearance, no? The combination of the big hair and the ̶h̶e̶a̶d̶b̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ diadems they tend to sport -- puts me in mind of John McEnroe or similar.


(Alexander II Zabinas of the Seleucids -- not my coin, of course.)

 

I was thinking more along the lines of Loverboy...

 

Yeah, the Greeks with their diadems had that "Lets Get Physical" 80's look


Makedon Philip III Arrhidaeus-Alex IV Drm Amphipolis mint 259g 13mm Apollo-Youth horse VERY RARE SNG ANS 621 Le Rider123

 

Actually, I think I do see some McEnroe similarities...

 

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O and by the by Ryro, congrats on your (1st?) "Featured Article"!

 

Thanks buddy It sure is my 1st

 

Cool idea for a thread!

I have a few from Elis.

Hera:

Elis, Olympia
AR STATER, 388 BC, 98th OLYMPIAD, Bold Fine+/Fine with light obverse scratches, 22.3mm, 11.22g
Obverse: Head of Hera right in high relief, wearing ornamented stephanos.
Reverse: Flaming thunderbolt within wreath, F A across fields
References: Seltman 285
The die set Seltman 285 is extremely rare and possibly only the third known.

Zeus:

Elis, Olympia
AR Stater, First quarter of 3rd Century BC, 22mm, 12h.
Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus right
Reverse: Eagle, with closed wings, standing right on the tail of a snake, coiling upwards and striking towards the eagle's head; to left, thunderbolt.
References: Seltman 232 (same dies)

Lunchtime:

Elis, Olympia
AR Drachm. 134th-143rd Olympiad. 244-208 BC.
Obverse: Eagle flying right, tearing at hare held in its talons.
Reverse: Vertical thunderbolt with volute above, wings below; F-A flanking.
References: Elis Hoard Group I, 1 (same dies); BCD Olympia 231; cf. SNG Copenhagen 426; Dewing 1902; Pozzi 4145. 4.74g, 18mm, 6h

John

 

Sorry but the best album of the 80’s was Doolittle by The Pixies. Far more original and influential than anything Huey Lewis and the News ever released.

 

Best album of the 80s is Rush: Moving Pictures!

John

 

Quintessential music for '80s headbanding...



See what I did there?

 

The best album from the 80s was this:



And so I offer you this proposed coin design (sorry it's not ancient):



You can read about it here.

 

I love all the passion about everyone's favorite albums (especially the rock albums). Of course we all know there is no "best" album. As that is a subjective term. Opinions are luck butts. We all have em. And they all stink!
Coins however, don't stink. To quote the emperor Vespasian, when being hassled by son Titus on his new scheme to charge the citizens to use Rome's outdoor toilets connected to the Cloaca Maxima. Titus felt his father was demeaning his own authority by doing this.
Vespasian famously had Titus smell a coin and asked if it stank. When Titus said, "No." Vespasian's response, "Yet it comes from urine!?"
Hence the now often used phrase "Pecunia non olet" money doesn't stink!
So Here are a couple more sports related coins I've come across in the ol collection...

A little archery (though me thinks he probably has a Greek in the crosshairs and not a bullseye)


OrodesI
Hellenistic Monarchies, The
Parthian Kingdom - 80-77 BC.
AR Drachm (17mm, 3.35g).
Rhagae. Bust wearing a tiara
with eight point in centre
tthron withshort beard / Archer
seated right on throne

A little wrestling (as we know, from all the imagery from later coinage with Herakles wearing this fellas head as a cap, this wrestling match was for keeps!)


LUCANIA, Herakleia
433-330 BCE. AR Diobol (1.15
gm). Head of Athena right,
wearing Corinthian helmet
decorated with hippocamp /
Herakles kneeling right, head
facing, wrestling with the
Nemean lion; EP upper right,
club left. Van Keuren 62 (same
dies); SNG ANS 33 (same dies).
Toned EF, surfaces grainy.

 

Huey Lewis and the News! Man, I hadn't thought about them in years!

Hey, archery is a sport, right? And it is Hip To Be Square!

 

What about quadriga racing? That has to be one of the most outrageous of the ancient sports:





Controlling four high spirited horses while standing on a light wood and wicker framework while galloping at full speed in a crowded stadium with multiple other teams seems so dangerous! Talk about turn one crash! No pit stops for tires, fuel and a wing adjustment.

John

 

Huey Lewis and the News are certainly the epitome of 80s cheese. Rolling Stone magazine once called Sports the Mount Everest of cheese.

My pick from the 80s is a bit more low key.

Crowded House - Self-titled

Don't Dream It's Over was the big hit from the album which got to #2 in the US in 1987.



And here is a crowded coin.


Vespasian
AR Denarius, 3.32g
Ephesus mint, 71 AD
RIC 1424 (R3). BMC - . RSC - . RPC 827 (1 spec.).
Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS III TR P P P; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r.
Rev: LIBERI IMP AVG VESPAS; Titus and Domitian veiled, togate, stg. front (heads l.), each with patera; below, BY mint mark
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.