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dougsmit, that's awesome!! ... and hey, I need the part that you have!! (the jaws)  ... ummm, I think I remember you showing that 1/2 coin in one of your threads? (was it in your Top 20 coins thread?) maridvnvm => I'm surprised that you don't have one yet (you seem to have amazingly nice SMACKDOWN coins ... you always seem to be able to pull a couple of winners out of your bag-o-tricks!!) |
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I just showed mine on another thread, but I'll take the opportunity to show it once again.  |
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Nice OP coin Jerry. That's one I can plan on never having if they're so expensive. lol
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Funny => "expensive" is certainly a relative term, yes? ... Ummm, this coin was certainly less expensive than my Chimaera and/or my recent Elephant coin ... I actually won this Augustus AE-Dupondius with a bid that was less than $200 (but yah, I guess that is still pretty expensive, eh?) Hey, I'm almost 50 years old and I don't have any kids to blow my "spare cash" on, so these coins allow me to live a bit on the ol' wild-side ... => everybody has a money-pit, right? (some people have their kids and their kid's sporting events, etc ... some people collect fancy cars ... some people travel the globe ... and apparently some people live in Northern Manitoba and spend their mad-money on 2000 year old coins!!) ... it's all good!!  |
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Hey Bing => that's great coin, dawg (thanks for showing it off!!) ... your coin has better jaws than mine!!  Edited by stevex6
09/30/2012 5:55 pm
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Not to worry my friend. Not saying anything about whatever you're spending. If I had the money, I would purchase higher grade and more expensive coins myself.
Just saying some coins I won't ever be purchasing because they are expensive to my budget.
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i was trying to thin where I had seen one of those lately jw, I remember that coin.
that coin is awesome stevex...super interesting.
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i wonder why somone would be so bold as to chain a crocodile to a palm tree? I wonder did they go in the store and tie'em up out front or is he guarding the cocanuts.
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That was probably like a Roman Pit-Bull? => say 'ello to my little green doggy!!  |
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I've been to Nimes in Provence and I don't recall seeing any palm trees. In fact it was downright cold for the month of May when I was there. I wondered about that too. Given Nimes is as farth north as Portland Maine, I wouldn't expect palms--although the actual climate is similar to C. California where I lived for years. Many European cities have animals in their coat of arms and sometimes they even kept a real animal mascot--but a crocodile? Dunno...it's sure not as warm as Egypt or Florida.  Palms at Nimes Best Western Hotel  Edited by DVCollector
09/30/2012 10:24 pm
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You'll have to ask the Gater Boys....  ...Steve once again you have out done yourself...Sweet coin.... |
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I don't know about crocks, but I had a 4-5 foot gator in my backyard the other day, and I don't live near any bodies of water. The sheriff deputies came out, wrestled that bad boy and put a strap around it's mouth. Then they put it in the back seat of their cruiser like it was a normal day at the office. You can't make this stuff up.
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JW--wow! I don't know what I'd do if I saw a gator! That's a nasty size for any reptile--imagine what dinosaurs were like? I've had close calls with rattlers, but never that.  |
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Bing => I thought you told us that you were Gator Squadron when you were in the forces?  |
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The point of the crocodile chained type is that Nemausis was a colony founded as a place of retirement for veterans of the Egyptian campaigns. The guys that lived there when this coin was minted were proud of their (having survived) service with Caesar and Octavian against Cleopatra and Antony. The crocodile is chained to an Eqyptian tree as a sign that they had done well in putting down the beast in the east.
The obverse honors Agrippa who was Augustus' original selection to be the second Roman Emperor and who would have made a major change in Roman history had he not died so young. Augustus went through a long list of suitable successors but he lived so long that Tiberius was the only one alive when the job became available. That must have hurt Augustus deeply.
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