Phil Anthos

Here's a list of most of my numismatic catalogs... https://www.librarything.com/catalog/Enodia?tag=Numismatic Catalogs I might be able to look something up if needed, but some of these are buried in a box in the dreaded storage room. ~ Peter

Disco Lou!

Syracuse, Timoleon and the Third Democracy 344-336 BC AE Hemidrachm (23mm, 12.40g) O: Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right, hair short; ZEYΣEA EΛE-YΘEPIOΣ to right. R: Thunderbolt; eagle with closed wings standing to right; ΣYPAKOΣIΩN around. HGC 2, 1440; Calciati II p. 167, 72; SNG ANS 477ff; SNG Cop 727; Sear 1192 ex Forvm Ancient Coins Next: monster

Probus 276-282 AD AE Antoninianus (20mm, 3.43g) O: Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right; IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG. R: Female deity standing right, presenting wreath to Probus; RESTITVT ORBIS, Z in field between, XXI in ex. RIC 925 / Cohen 509 / Sear 3364 ex Jack H. Beymer

Cales, Campania 265-240 BC AE 22 (22mm, 6.32g) O: Head of Athena left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet, all within dotted border. R: Cock standing right, star behind; CALENΩ downward to right, all within dotted border. Sambon 916; HN Italy 435; SNG ANS 188; SNG Cop 322; Sear 548 ex Forvm Ancient Coins

Helmeted bust right... L. Flaminius Cilo 109-108 BC AR Denarius (17mm, 3.91g) O: Helmeted head of Roma right; X beneath chin, ROMA behind. R: Victory in biga right; L FLAMINI below horses, CILO in ex. Crawford 302-1; Sydenham 540; RSC Flaminia 1; BMC Italy 537 ex Jack H. Beymer

Yeah, The Hu are cool. Mongol hoards riding over the crest on Harleys... good stuff! I think Wolf Totem was the song they did with Kid Rock on vocals. Oh well, I still like them anyway. They played Portland a few months ago but I didn't have the drachmas. ~ Peter

Sad news. The mellatron master. Wasn't he the only original member from that first 'Go Now' album? Danny Laine (Wings) was in that band too. A friend of mine once told me "you know you're getting old when rock stars start dying of natural causes". 🙁

Mt Baker in Washington is about 250 north of me. The Sisters in Oregon are about 100 miles to the southeast.

One of my all time favorite and most severely underrated songs ever! ~ Peter

A ram is a sheep, right? I have always loved this artist, and when I'm crossing the bar I would like to hear this song as I drift away for the last time... Klazomenai, Ionia Late 4th century BC AE12 (12mm, 1.79g) O: Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves, and triple pendant earring. R: Head of ram to right; KΛΑ below. Sear 4322 ex JAZ Numismatics

I read the Barry Cunliffe which of course is mostly speculation, but it is argued very logically and reads much like a Pausanias travel guide.

Having just reread Pytheas I find this particularly interesting, thanks. ~ Peter

In 1998 some friends of mine started a community garden at another friend's house not to far from me. I saw this as an opportunity to do something I'd always wanted to do, stand some really big stones on their end. My wife and I had recently watched a show on PBS about the stones at Stonehenge and the great obelisk at Alexandria, with two groups putting their theories to practice and I thought "we could do that". So I spoke with a friend who was a rigger for a local power company, and another who was a geological engineer. We decided we could do it, but we wanted to erect the stones with no modern equipment. A year later we erected the uprights (14 tons of columnar basalt), and 15 months after that we placed the lintel, (3.5 tons of granite). All this was done with ropes and simple pulleys, and a LOT of volunteers pulling on the ropes! Over the next decade we added smaller stones around to make a circle It was one hell of an experience which none of us will ever forget. ~ Peter