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    Bring out your Tets! Ding-aling-aling Bring out your Tets! Ding-aling-aling

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    Posted

    1 minute ago, Ryro said:

    Nice pair of tetties!

    I bought this one for the portrait of her... who really wants to look at him anyways😉

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    Nero With Poppaea
    ALEXANDRIA 
    Billon tetradrachmon, 63-64. Head with strkr. No. Rv. [POPPAI] A SEBASTH Drap. Bust nr, the hair in the neck in a braid, in the field r. Date LI (= year 10). 12.18 g. Geissen 58, 157. Dattari 12, 196. RPC I, 708, 5275. Rare.
    Ex: Savoca

    It is why I got mine too. 😄 

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    Bring out your Tets! Ding-aling-aling Bring out your Tets! Ding-aling-aling

    in Greek

    Posted

    Nero Tetties

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    RI
    Nero billon tetradrachm of Alexandria Egypt,
    r. bust of Poppea,
    LI ry.10 63-64AD
    Milne 217, RPC 5275
    obv. Radiate head of Nero right
    rev. Draped bust of Poppea right, LI before
    diameter: 23mm
    weight: 12.8g


    [IMG]
    Antioch, Syria
    Nero Regnal year 8, Caesarian year 110, (AD 61/62)
    AR Tetradrachm 25 mm x 14.05 grams
    Obverse: NERWNOS KAISAROS SEBASTOU, Laureate bust right, wearing aegis.
    Reverse: Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, palm branch before, H/IP behind.
    Ref: RPC4182
    Ex: @Ancientnoob

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    The gold addiction begins!

    in Byzantine

    Posted

    I have shot my wad in Ancients Gold... this is it. However, I have a World Gold and US Gold collection as large as my Ancients.

    North Africa

    [IMG]
    Carthage - Zeugitana 
    AV 1/10th Stater-Shekel 
    350-320 BCE 
    0.94g 7.5mm 
    Palm- 
    Horse Head 
    SNG COP 132

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    Post your cats and ancient/medieval coins depicting felines!

    in General

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, DANTE said:

    There are no felines in my household for the time being. We had a cat, Maxi, that died last year. The most trusting, lazy, and friendliest creature I've ever seen. Sometimes I wondered if it really was a rabbit, accidently born in a cat's body. I still miss him.

    Here's an old cat:

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    Cool to see a cylinder seal, @Alegandron! 😊I really love those!!!

    Thank you very much. I really enjoy it.

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    Post it and pick it!

    in General

    Posted · Edited by Alegandron

    Etruria

    1-As: 
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    Etruria Populonia
    AR 1 As 0.60g 10.0mm
    after 211 BCE
    Obv: Male Head Left
    Rev: Plain Rev
    Ref: Vecchi 3 68-70 HN Italy 181
    Seller/Auction comment: EXTREMELY RARE

    next: Carthage BCE

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    I think we need our own 'Post an Old Coin and and an Old Tune' thread

    in General

    Posted · Edited by Alegandron

    5 hours ago, JeandAcre said:

    To my shame, I've yet to invite Stevex6 to the forum.  Stupid me.  But it was a brilliant thread.  (Oh, Expletive of Choice, I guess he was another casualty of ...well, you're likely to smell where the smoke is coming from.)

    If you need some rules ...well, trust me (if you have to), you don't.  Just, any old coin, and any old tune, with or without the pretense of a connection between the two.

    Given which, here's what I felt like starting with.  

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    This is the first, and easily the best, of my imitations of Ayyubiid dirhams, from Frankish /Crusader Acre.  The guy who sold it to me (on ebay, back when it, like the internet in general, was actually About something) was a grad student at some very impressive school in New England.  ...Or other.  Accordingto folks like Metcalf and Malloy, the primary way you can distinguish the Frankish imitations from the Ayyubid originals is that the dates are always posthumous, relative to the sultans' names.  And Yes, the Franks had been there long enough to be that literate in Arabic.  ...Which I kind of need, for one because I'm pretty emphatically not.  (As in, more emphatically than pretty.)  The graduate student dated this one to an AH date corresponding to 1217 CE.

    Here are a couple of tunes demonstrating a comparable dynamic.  First, Jelly-Roll Morton, 'Jelly Roll Blues,' recorded by the composer himself, from what has to be the best piano roll extant.  Followed by a creditable reading of a typical French Baroque chaconne.  See if you can tell how closely they resemble eachother, just structurally, along the lines of a series of dance-based variations.  ...Morton has gotten into lots of trouble, once he died and couldn't defend himself, for allegedly overemphasizing his light-skinnededness.  But even when he said (direct quote ...I think), 'all my peoples were Frenchmens,' he just might have been saying as little as, 'all my peoples were Francophones.'

     

    Followed by this chaconne:

     

     

    I always though Harpsichord was cool music.  The plucking of the strings vs. a velvet hammer gave a cool sound.

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