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Happy birthday, MM!

 

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Happy Birthday. As a matter of fact I do have the long underwear the Army issued me when I went in ('joined' implies it was my idea which it was not) in 1968. I also have field jackets from that year that they issued and some really warm wool socks that only get worn for things like shoveling snow.

Making this a coin related post: buy good stuff that you will still enjoy owning in 48 years. I do have coins that have been with me longer than those Army issue clothes and have no intention of selling them (or sending them to Goodwill as the case may be) as long as we both are serviceable.

 

Sorry for the late response, I kinda celebrated a little too much!
Thank you guys, and girl, for the kind words. You folks are pretty cool!

I'm not that liberal!

 

I suppose that we are the yin and yang of Coin talk then! I like studying the late Empire, and in particular the period of 350-408. It was a period of time when Rome went from being a super power to just another kid on the block. In my opinion this is even more tragic because it could have easily been avoided!

 

History repeats itself!

 

More than agreed. Those who do not know History are doomed to repeat it.

 

Ooouuuppps, I'm late, happy birthday to you MM !!
I increase this post with one of my siliquae, just input this week. A NotInRic, no other know in the world. But a little bit later for your study...

Crédit : ©Siliquae

half-siliqua, 439-455, R5 A/ D N PLA VALENTINIANVS P F AVG Dominus Noster Placidius Valentinianus Pius Felix Augustus, Notre Seigneur Placide Valentinien Pieux et Heureux Auguste Buste à droite, drapé et cuirassé, tête diadémée (Rosettes). R/ GLORIA RO-MANORVM//RVPS Gloria Romanorum, La Gloire des Romains La victoire debout à gauche tenant à la main une longue croix. Silver, 0.64 gr, 14.2 mm, 12h - RIC X 3724-V, RSC 2†Bb

Comments :
RIC describes this reference for a siliqua. This is, given the weight of the show half a siliqua. The description of the RIC also provides a star in the field. The plate of the RIC don't indicate a star. This is probably a description error of the RIC.

Platte of the RIC X :


After closing the mint of Milan in 423, mint of Ravenna continued to struck siliqua
to 1/288th of a pound (1.2gr) and half-siliqua (0.4gr - 0.8gr).
Mints associated pseudo-workshops, attributed to Visigoth, continue to meet or less these instructions. It is in this context that is the issue of this half-siliqua in the name of Valentinian III.
The copy presented seems the same obverse dies than the platte of RIC X used to describe this reference RIC 3724 (Museum of Washington, Dumbarton Oaks), although its weight is lighter.
These elements make this half-siliqua extremely rare, almost unique, whose conservation status is exemplary by the absence of trimming and wide blank.

Recorded inside data-basis Siliquae

 

Saw this and thought this would belong here.
It's by the legendary Roman historian Warren Treadgold, I use much of his work in my write ups.
https://www.academia.edu/6192612/Paying_the_Army_in_the_Theodosian_Period