Trantor_3 Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Huge and heavy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabethann Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 You're kidding me! THAT is what they use for paper money! No way! How would you like to have to carry that around to Wal-Mart every time you went! lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sisu Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 You're kidding me! THAT is what they use for paper money! No way! How would you like to have to carry that around to Wal-Mart every time you went! lol! Tell your husband that they would make good tractor tires, and maybe he will get interested in coins too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 When this topic first started, it reminded me of a site I had come across, but alas I could not find it again. I thought it was at the French mint, but no luck. Then tonight, I was visiting the French site and clicked on something that took me to the link. Before I lose it again, the following link will take you to the mint's exhibition of nudes on medals. http://www.monnaiedeparis.fr/actualite/Expointro.htm The text is in French, but you should be able to decipher the pictures. (Seriously, its worth a visit if you like medallic arts.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmarotta Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Harry Bass Foundation. http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/links.htm Links at the middle of the Top. Then click on Currency. You want section 5000. Look at the $5 Silver Certificates and other notes in the "Educational" (Blanche Dubois) series. (use the individual item search) Search for the words spintria and tessera on Google, Wildwinds or CoinArchives. These were supposedly "Roman brothel tokens." Much speculation surrounds them. Tessera might mean "fourth" most likely direct from Greek, or might mean "corner" or therefore "cut" -- (the same as "coin" comes from "wedge" for the shape of the die) -- or something similar. Tessera are also identified as admission tickets to theaters and games. As such, they are ancient tokens, independent of any other considerations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Not to forget the nekkid Heracles on the reverse of the Thasos tetradrachms of ancient Greece. The ancients were less inhibited than us. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tabbs Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Here is a lady from Slovakia ... Info: http://www.nbs.sk/MENA/BEZMIN/2SKA.HTM Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmarotta Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 The ancients were less inhibited than us. :-) The only shame to nakedness was that it meant that you could not afford a cloak. (If we had to walk around naked, more people would have memberships in "sweatshops.") As late as 150 BC, Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius worked naked in his fields, alongside his slaves. That was recorded by Plutarch about 80 AD, and it was only an example of Cato's willingness to do hard work. The assimilation of Jewish values through Christianity changed the Hellenic-Romanic worldview. Independent of that, of course, the barbarian invasions might have had a similar result. Coming from cold climates, the Germans wore pants. On the other hand, when the Hellenes and Latins came down into the Mediterranean basin a couple thousand years previous, they shed their clothes. So, it is difficult to predict the alternate history. Also, Greek coins tended to portray naked gods, not goddesses, and the goddess's pudicity was never revealed, of course. If you start with any coffee table book on Greek coins -- G. K. Jenkins's for instance -- you can then go to Coin Archives or Wildwinds and find many nudes. (You meant, "... than we.") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 The ancients were less inhibited than us. :-) (You meant, "... than we.") I did? Ian `spokin inglish wurks fur me' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ageka Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 A French coin from Monnaie de Paris capsuled, boxed, fittin cartboard and certificate La Source From the artist Ingres ( warning not for the easily shocked or underage ) http://www.wmich.edu/~emrl/vt/paint19g_big.htm The rendition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willieboyd2 Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 An old problem in schools. (http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/coins/mimages/m16273-113.gif) Good looking young female teachers and young boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becky Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Nobody has posted one of these yet...she's only half nekkid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted January 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 No one posted this one either, but I hate posting mine cuz the naked part is worn off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Haven't seen this guy yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted January 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 I forgot about wienie man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syzygy Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowhodan Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 And the pink version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elverno Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 Several on my list to be rephotographed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stujoe Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 http://www.heritagegalleries.com/common/vi...t_No=7113#Photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becky Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 More nekkid guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 More nekkid guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGaulois Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Wouldn't mind meeting that lady... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Wouldn't mind meeting that lady... Tres bonne Je amour les medailles francaise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Wouldn't mind meeting that lady... I think she's a bit old now........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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