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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3080175, member: 91461&quot;]I love all the passion about everyone&#039;s favorite albums (especially the rock albums). Of course we all know there is no &quot;best&quot; album. As that is a subjective term. Opinions are luck butts. We all have em. And they all stink!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie84" alt=":smug:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Coins however, don&#039;t stink. To quote the emperor Vespasian, when being hassled by son Titus on his new scheme to charge the citizens to use Rome&#039;s outdoor toilets connected to the Cloaca Maxima. Titus felt his father was demeaning his own authority by doing this.</p><p>Vespasian famously had Titus smell a coin and asked if it stank. When Titus said, &quot;No.&quot; Vespasian&#039;s response, &quot;Yet it comes from urine!?&quot; </p><p>Hence the now often used phrase &quot;<i>Pecunia non olet&quot; money doesn&#039;t stink!</i></p><p><i>So Here are a couple more sports related coins I&#039;ve come across in the ol collection...</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>A little archery (though me thinks he probably has a Greek in the crosshairs and not a bullseye)</i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]775481[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>OrodesI</i></p><p><i>Hellenistic Monarchies, The</i></p><p><i>Parthian Kingdom - 80-77 BC.</i></p><p><i>AR Drachm (17mm, 3.35g).</i></p><p><i>Rhagae. Bust wearing a tiara</i></p><p><i>with eight point in centre</i></p><p><i>tthron withshort beard / Archer</i></p><p><i>seated right on throne</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>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!)</i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]775482[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>LUCANIA, Herakleia</i></p><p><i>433-330 BCE. AR Diobol (1.15 </i></p><p><i>gm). Head of Athena right, </i></p><p><i>wearing Corinthian helmet </i></p><p><i>decorated with hippocamp / </i></p><p><i>Herakles kneeling right, head </i></p><p><i>facing, wrestling with the </i></p><p><i>Nemean lion; EP upper right, </i></p><p><i>club left. Van Keuren 62 (same </i></p><p><i>dies); SNG ANS 33 (same dies). </i></p><p><i>Toned EF, surfaces grainy.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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