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me and the wife were planning on going to see the new pompeii movie...but considering some of the reviews I've seen..may wait until it hits the vid store or netflix. i have two requests... 1. anyone seen this movie? what do you think? also, my wife asked me if I had any coins from pompeii, I told her no, and that I didn't have many roman coins from around that time even. here's a glimpse of some coins they found at pompeii (end of vid).. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11962504this is all I have from close to the time, a poor coin of titus or tiberius...but has several cool counermarks (helmets, dolphin).   anyway... number 2. if any of you would like to post your roman coins from about that time, i'd like to see them. mrs chrsmat71 will probably be checking the thread out..so be sure to mention that mr chrsmat71 needs to buy a nice new 1 st century coin. Edited by chrsmat71
03/06/2014 8:04 pm
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Pompeii seems to be a hot topic in media all of a sudden. There's also that Pompeii song by Bastille that is popular, and it's about the city being destroyed by the eruption. My sister has been there, and she said it's very surreal. I hope to see it, one day.
I heard the movie ain't great. It's done by Paul W. Anderson, who can do a bad job at times. He made movies for the Resident Evil (video games) franchise. Those movies are mediocre, mostly. It's no surprise the Pompeii movie is only doing okay. I plan to rent it later.
I'll be curious to see if anybody has Pompeii coins or related....
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Here is one of mine a Sestertius of Titus. The emperor right at the time of Pompeii.   I'm going to wait until it comes out on DVD. |
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From watching the video I saw a Republican Denarius, so there is a good chance that any coins from the time of the Republic until Titus might have turned up there.
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no first century roman coins? hu..  anyway...there's a discovery channel documentary on netflix about pompeii that shows the gold..but also gives a glimps of some bronze coins found being held my one victims. worth a look if you have netflix. Edited by chrsmat71
03/07/2014 11:00 pm
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Haven't seen the movie, but looking forward to watching it. Here's one of Nero the people of Pompeii probably would have been familiar with.  Nero. Æ As. c. 65 AD. RIC 319. OBV: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P. Bare head of Nero r. REV: SC. Victory advancing l., holding shield inscribed SPQR. My favorite Pompeii related coins are the Aurei of the 1895 Boscoreale hoard. Talk about history in your hands! They were hidden, likely under fear of an imminent catastrophe, and preserved in a cistern under ash and pumice for almost 2000 years. Many of them show a distinctive red toning, probably from the intense heat of a pyroclastic flow. |
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Many of them show a distinctive red toning yes! I've seen those, they absolutely stunning. if you haven't seen them, look here...get a napkin ready to clean up the drool. http://ansmagazine.com/Summer04/BoscorealeEdited by chrsmat71
03/08/2014 12:15 am
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Wow! those are fantastic coins.
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Might has seen some of these their. AS of Claudius.   |
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Number 1, I have not seen the movie. Although now that I know there is one I want to see it. I also want to see the new "300" movie, I hear its out now. Number 2, I thought about what coins I could post for this thread and I wonder if this guy heard the noise.This is also an odd patina for a silver coin eh? Nahapana Makasatrapa Nahapana as Emperor of India 78-130AD ? Kshaharatas of Saurashtra AR Karshapana 21 mm x 2.53g Obv. Greek script. Nahapana right. Rev. Kharoshti script. Brahmi script. Arrow and Thunderbolt. ref: M1253  |
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At the " Pompeii" exhibition last year at the British Museum, I saw a stash of Denarii found in the excavation works done so far. They seemed to range from the Republican era to the reign of Titus. So below is a selection of Denarii that no shop keeper would have said no to on that fateful day, August 24, 79 AD.   C. Claudius Pulcher, AR Denarius, 109 BC, Crawford 300/1. Metal detecting find from Cambridgeshire.   Octavian, AR Denarius, Crawford 523/1a, 40 BC. Metal detecting find from Cambridgeshire.   Vespasian, AR Denarius, RIC II 90, 75 AD Edited by Masis
03/08/2014 9:05 pm
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I have a denarius actually datable to AD 79.  Emperor Titus, denarius, AD 79. Obverse: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM. Reverse: Jewish captive kneeling beneath trophy, TRP VIIII IMP XV COS VII PP. Titus was made AVG in June AD 79 and COS VIII on January 1 AD 80, so that brackets this coin nicely in the target year and even the target period of the year for Vesuvius (August AD 79). Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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oh cool sap, I love dated coins anyway.  Edited by chrsmat71
03/10/2014 9:57 pm
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I have a Vespasian dated to 74 AD (COS V), pretty close to the eruption in 79:  |
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Vesuvius would have less devastating eruptions over the centuries, but one occurred in the year 512 AD that was bad enough that the Ostrogothic king of Italy Theodoric exempted from taxes those that were affected by the eruption. Italian coins of the time of Theodoric, and what would have been familiar to those living around Vesuvius at the time:    |
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