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Pillar of the Community
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Today I received a lovely AE-18 of Elagabalus from Nicopolis ad Istrum with reverse of Priapus and his enormous phallus. It has nice details and a deep green patina. Priapus' "endowment" in fully visible. I won it as an unattributed coin on ebay UK.  Here's a link to a similar coin on VCoins.com with more information about Priapus.  Staff note...... Explicit images are not allowed per forum rules. Coin was edited and link removed---echizento Paul Bulgerin
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Moderator
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Very nice patina and overall a nice coin.
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Pillar of the Community
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Sorry! I didn't know Priapus needed to be "edited". And I'm a Lutheran minister!
Paul Bulgerin
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Pillar of the Community
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Sorry! I didn't know Priapus needed to be "edited". And I'm a Lutheran minister! Perhaps if you would have abstained from emphasising what it was, it could have been avoided  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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But what it is is what makes it such an interesting coin.
Oh well, lesson learned.
Paul Bulgerin
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
Not a problem Paul, lots of young collectors here.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
513 Posts |
It'd probably be the most interested they'd ever be in a coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Perhaps if you would have abstained from emphasising what it was I suspect it was emphasized quite enough on the actual coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pretty funny censorship. Kinda reminds me of when of when Europeans first rediscovered the ruins of Pompeii. Romans always were so fond of the male equipment.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2480 Posts |
I have the same coin but in the interest of avoiding censorship will refrain from posting the edited version :)
If interested you can see it posted on a number of other coin forums.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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These coins of Priapus often elicit tittering but I wonder if the effect was the same in ancient Roman days. I suspect not.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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well pastor PB, I think that is an absolutely fantastic coin.
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Pillar of the Community
Netherlands
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It seems silly to edit Priapus. That is an actual ancient coin. Those of us who belong to this site are interested in ancient coins. Anyone offended by that should not collect ancient coins; they depict killing (soldier spearing fallen horseman) which is surely worse than depicting some naked ancient god (by the way, on ancient coins, including the GENIO POPVLI ROMANI of the tetrarchy, Goods are often naked). No big deal.
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