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Faustina II, AD 147-175.
Roman AR denarius, 3.01 g, 19.6 mm, 1 h.
Rome, AD 166-170.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust of Faustina II, right, Beckmann type 7 hairstyle, wearing stephane.
Rev: IVNO, Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter; peacock at feet.
Refs: RIC 688 var. (stephane); BMCRE 109; RSC 120b; RCV 5255 var. (stephane); CRE 189.
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Nice

 

Here's a classic ol' tune ... 

 

 

 

Postumus AR Antoninianus

260-269 AD

Diameter: 21 mm

Weight: 3.58 grams

Obverse: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right

Reverse: LAETITIA AVG, galley left with four rowers & pilot

Reference: RIC 73, RSC 167

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Another British link... would’ve been great to have been there! (The concert, not the battle). 

Septimius Severus Denarius, 210-211

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Rome. Silver, 2.21g. Head with laurel wreath from right; SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT. Victory with palm branch and wreath from right; VICTORIAE BRIT (Victory in Britain) (RIC IV, 332).

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Philippe III (1270-1285).  AR Toulousain; approximating half a gros tournois.  ...In 1271, one of Philippe's uncles, Alphonse of Poitiers, died without heirs, having married Joan, the heiress of Toulouse.  The county promptly became part of the Capetian royal demesne.  ...Continuing the steady and often dramatic centralization of royal territorial rule, beginning with Philippe II in the first years of the the same century.  ...If only those (expletive of choice) English hadn't started the Hundred Years' War, and mucked everything up until the later 15th century.... 

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Obv.  Fleur de lis.  +PhILIPVS REX.  /Rev. Cross; (punctuated by fleurs de lis:) +TO / 'L'A / CI /VI.

Duplessy, Royales 203.

That many flowers has to make me think of bumblebees.  (...Sure, I had help.)  This is John Lee Hooker, from one of his early '70's albums, amounting to a kind of graduate seminar for all of these hippies who were learning the blues.  For the record, it worked.  Except, on this track, you can tell who's playing the guitar.  

 

 

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Nice 

 

=> here s another cool dude, performing a very cool tune 

 

 

 

Oh, and here is a very sweet Hadrian Snake (ex-stevex6)

 

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ahaha ... weak

 

I like all types of blues/music 

 

I'm not stuck just lovin' Muddy, Wolf & John Lee Hooker ... I consider The Stones and even a few Zeppelin tunes as sweet, sweet blues 

 

Led Zeppelin - Travelling Riverside Blues (Official Music Video) - Bing video

 

EGYPT, Uncertain, PB Tessera 

2nd-3rd centuries AD

Diameter: 15 mm

Weight: 4.82 grams

Obverse: Head of Serapis right, wearing calathus; uncertain object before

Reverse: Griffin seated right, resting right paw on wheel

Reference: Milne –; Dattari (Savio) –; Köln

Other: 5h … even gray patina with a spot of green, minor surface cracking

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Give a coin-brother some slack

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... great tune

Oh, and here is a great ol' coin ... cheers, fellas

 

TROAS, Birytis. Æ18

4th-3rd centuries BC

Diameter: 18 mm

Weight: 5.80 grams

Obverse: Head of Kabeiros left, wearing pilos; two stars above

Reverse: Club within wreath

Reference: SNG München 168; SNG von Aulock 1502-3; SNG Copenhagen 247-8

Other: 1h … brown patina, minor roughness on reverse

Ex-stevex6 … From the Demetrios Armounta Collection

 

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Well, well, well ... here we are again, 18 hours later and I still feel like I've gotta have more cowbell!

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=> ummm, or maybe this awesome classic Canadian-tune will do the trick? ... 

 

 

CARTHAGE Æ20

Circa 300-264 BC

Diameter: 20 mm

Weight: 4.79 grams

Obverse: Wreathed head of Tanit left

Reverse: Horse’s head right; palm tree before, pellet below

Reference: MAA 57m; SNG Copenhagen 175

Other: 7h … a fricken beauty, with brown patina with some light earthen deposits

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Pretty fricken amazing sound for 3 cool dudes, eh?

R.I.P. Neal Peart

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Here is another amazingly sad R.I.P. 

... man, so many epic tunes from my youth 

 

Pisidia, Selge AR Stater

325-250 BC

Diameter: 24.1 mm

Weight: 9.43 grams

Obverse: Two wrestlers grappling, K between

Reverse: Slinger; triskels above, club and cornucopia right

Reference:

Other: Obverse die slightly corroded, dark toning

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ahaha ... hey Jean, thanks for establishing my own private tune-thread ... 24 hours later and here I am ... drinkin' and wanting to hear a few good tunes! (life is great)

Hi

 

 

 

Roman Republic

Post Reform Æ Semis (Anonymous)

Circa 88 BC (?)

Rome mint

Diameter: 21mm

Weight: 5.96 grams

Obverse: Laureate head of Jupiter right; S (mark of value) behind

Reverse: Prow of galley right; S (mark of value) above; to right, dolphin downward, ROMA in exergue

Reference: Crawford –; Sydenham –; BMCRR II, p. 589, 10

Other: 2h, dark green patina. Kinda rare

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This might be my favourite song of all time??? ... well, for today

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... such a cool tune, the acoustic version ... 

 

=> well, what the fa??? => "both" versions are awesome, right? (great ol' party band from the 1990's &  2000's)

 

 

VICTORINUS SILVERED AE ANTONINIANUS

Colonia Agrippina (Köln) mint

Second half A.D. 269

Diameter: 15 mm

Weight: 3.3 grams

Obverse: IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG. Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right

Reverse: INVICTVS. Sol running left, holding whip, right hand raised, chlamys in two folds. Star in left field.

Reference:  RIC V-2 114

Other: very nice coin, difficult to find in this quality: conserving full details in both sides, including a precious portrait of this galo-romanic emperor, very strong relief and a delicious brown patina with remainings of the original silvering

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27 minutes ago, Steve said:

ahaha ... hey Jean, thanks for establishing my own private tune-thread ... 24 hours later and here I am ... drinkin' and wanting to hear a few good tunes! (life is great)

Hi

 

 

 

Roman Republic

Post Reform Æ Semis (Anonymous)

Circa 88 BC (?)

Rome mint

Diameter: 21mm

Weight: 5.96 grams

Obverse: Laureate head of Jupiter right; S (mark of value) behind

Reverse: Prow of galley right; S (mark of value) above; to right, dolphin downward, ROMA in exergue

Reference: Crawford –; Sydenham –; BMCRR II, p. 589, 10

Other: 2h, dark green patina. Kinda rare

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Yeah, and in the process, you've done amazing things for its tone --metaphorically and otherwise.

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The great Edith Piaf

 

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Rhodes, 304-166 BC
Asia Minor, Caria
AR Drachm, magistrate Stasion
Obv.: Head of Helios facing slightly right.
Rev.: ΣΤΑΣIΩΝ, P - O, Rose with bud right, winged thunderbolt in field left.
Ag, 2.75g, 14mm
Ref.: "Neue Beiträge zur antiken Münzkunde aus schweizerischen öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen", p. 63, no. 59, RSN 30 (1945) p. 1-103. (1 specimen cited).

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Roman AR denarius, 2.88 g, 16.5 mm, 5 h.
Rome, AD 166.
Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bust of Faustina II, draped, right, Beckmann type 7 coiffure with a circlet of pearls in the hair.
Rev: HILARITAS, Hilaritas standing left, holding long palm-branch in right hand and cornucopia in left hand.
Refs: RIC 686 var.; BMCRE 101-102; RSC 111a; RCV 5254; CRE 182; MIR 15-4/10b.

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On that note ... 

=> here is a lil' Zeppelin

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Gallienus, Pamphylia, Side ... 

w. c/m & Athena w. pomegranate

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... this is fun

I love you guys (thanks for allowing me to play) 

Hi

 

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@Steve, in all candor, I like your coins a lot more than your music!  Bet you already figured that out, anyway.

The provincial Gallienus is very cool all by itself.  But the countermark really made me sit up!  I'm wondering how speciously superficial my associatiation of it with Byzantine ...something is.  With the condition, even if it had circulated that long, that wouldn't make a lot of sense.  ...I know Exactly Zero about 3rd-century countermarks.

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Hey, Jean ... Hi

Sorry, but this is all of the info I have on that sweet ex-coin ... 

 

PAMPHYLIA, Side. Gallienus, Æ 11 Assarion

253-268 AD

Diameter: 30 mm

Weight: 14.25 grams

Obverse: Laureate and draped bust right above eagle standing right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; IA obliterated by c/m of Є within circular incuse

Reverse: Athena standing facing, head right, holding spear and [thunderbolt], with shield at side; pomegranate to left

Reference: SNG France –; BMC 104; for c/m: Howgego 805

Other: 6h … brown surfaces

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... meh ... 

I miss the ol' girl

 

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The great Edith Piaf

 

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Rhodes, 304-166 BC
Asia Minor, Caria
AR Drachm, magistrate Stasion
Obv.: Head of Helios facing slightly right.
Rev.: ΣΤΑΣIΩΝ, P - O, Rose with bud right, winged thunderbolt in field left.
Ag, 2.75g, 14mm
Ref.: "Neue Beiträge zur antiken Münzkunde aus schweizerischen öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen", p. 63, no. 59, RSN 30 (1945) p. 1-103. (1 specimen cited).

@shanxi, I was knowing the song that should complement your post of the Edith Piaf, but never found a coin remotely as appropriate as your magnificent example of Rhodes.

Anyway, here's a repost of my less than great denier, provisionally attributed to Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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Rev. +AGVITANIE.  Obv. +DVCISIT.  Cf. Duplessy 1025.

And some Billie Holiday.  This is the version I grew up with, on vinyl, and the best I've ever heard since.  ...Sometimes the song precedes what could only happen that much later.  Art not so much imitating, as anticipating life.  ...Thank you, sometimes art is its own sh-t, that way.

 

 

 

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With this koala, my life is complete!

Now, what sort of coin would go with this? My funky chicken, I guess.

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Pseudo-autonomous.
Roman provincial Æ 13 mm, 1.2 g.
Antioch, Pisidia, time of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.
Obv: ANTIOCH, draped bust of Mercury/Hermes (head assimilated to portrait of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar), left; to right, caduceus.
Rev: COLONI, chicken walking right.
Refs: RPC IV.3, 7350 (temporary); BMC 19.176,1 (pl. XXXI, 1); SNG von Aulock 4916; Krzyżanowska 140–1, VII.7–9; cf. SNG BN 1067.

 

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Nice!! ... there are some great coins and some fun tunes, my cool coin-friends!! (thanks for the great entertainment)

Errrr, probably to nobody's surprise, we are sipping mimosas on our deck (Sunday morning treats, good times!!)

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... Oh, and I'm also keeping an eye on The Open (PGA golf) ... another big finish, on-deck!

=> what a great Sunday, so far!!

 

 

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian Æ Obol

AD 117-138

Dated RY 14 (Regnal year 14)

(AD 129/30)

Diameter: 20 mm

Weight: 4.51 grams

Obverse: Laureate head right

Reverse: Uraeus (cobra) to left, with poppy and grain ear; L-IΔ (date) across upper field

Reference: Köln 1022; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G 32.501; Emmet 1170

Other: 12h ... red-brown patina … coolest coin ever!

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@Steve, thanks for getting into all the details about this fantastic obol.  If you haven't yet, you need to bounce this one off of @DonnaML.  I don't know of anyone on the forums here (...or elsewhere) who's more into, and erudite about the persistence of Pharaonic Egyptian religious motifs in the Roman period.

...Is your new avatar Cheech Marin?  Just a guess; it's been a minute.  

(My favorite bit --granted, if you can remember the '70's, you weren't there-- is when the cops are knocking on the door, and Cheech quotes Bob Marley: 'I hear you knockin', but you can't come in.')

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Constantine I, 317 AD. AE follis.

Obv: IMP CONSTANTINVS PF AVG, Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right.
Rev: SOLI INV-I-CTO COMITI, Sol standing half left, holding globe and raising right hand, chlamys across left shoulder.

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I'll change gears a bit and toss-in this classic (makes me moody whenever I hear it ... wickedly cool tune)

 

Magnia Urbica. Augusta, Antoninianus

Ticinum mint. 5th emission of Carus, August AD 283

AD 283-285

Diameter: 21 mm

Weight: 3.45 grams

Obverse: Draped bust right, wearing stephane and set on crescent

Reverse: Venus standing left, holding helmet and scepter; shield at side; SXXIT

Reference: RIC V 347; Pink VI/2, p. 29

Other: 6h … brown surfaces

Ex-stevex6 … From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Justice Frederic Rockwell Sanborn Collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 24 February 1977), lot 89

 

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... man, I love the looks of that sweet coin

 

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