David Noonan | Aura, 2023
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Shy Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her guy Gus Eisman (Tommy Noonan) in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953), directed by Howard Hawks
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A Hoard of 122 Anglo-Saxon Coins Sells at Auction
A hoard of more than 100 Anglo-Saxon coins discovered by two metal detectorists in a field near Braintree, Essex, has been sold auction at Noonans Mayfair on February 21. Believed to have been buried in 1066 and owned by an individual who died during the Battle of Hastings. The collection of Anglo-Saxon pennies found by two metal detectorists have been sold for £325,560 ($411,000) at auction.
The coins were each worth 12 shillings, a considerable sum back in 11th century, leading Noonans’s coin expert Bradley Hopper to hypothesize that the reason they were abandoned was due “some great personal misfortune” such as the death of their owner in the conflict. Hopper added, though, that “it was perhaps quite common for people who had access neither to banks nor vaults to conceal their wealth in the ground, even in times of peace.” All bar two of the coins were minted within five years of 1066.
A small selection of coins from the hoard were bought by Colchester Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, following the protocol of the 1996 Treasure Act. The purchased coins include two 11th-century Byzantine coins.
The metal detectorists found the majority of the coins in 2019 over the course of a few days, all within a 100-foot radius, some just inches beneath ground’s surface. A further 70 coins were found when the site was revisited in 2020. The coins were minted in various southern English towns and cities, including London, Cambridge, Canterbury, and Hastings.
The coins date from the reigns of Edward the Confessor and Harold II, the last two Anglo-Saxon kings of England. Harold was killed during the 1066 Battle of Hastings, seen on the Bayeux Tapestry receiving a fatal arrow through the eye. His death marked the victory of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England.
The detectorists have kept several coins, with 122 of the remaining relics headed to Noonans. The proceeds will be shared between the finders and the owner of the land on which the coins were discovered. Some coins included in the sale are exceedingly rare and could fetch £6,000 ($7,600) individually.
Hopper said that Noonans is “particularly fortunate that the auction catalogue contains not only the rarest and most academically interesting English coins from the Braintree Hoard, but also those pieces in the finest state of preservation.” He hopes that the auction will “promote further research into this wonderful coinage.”
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Fallout: New Vegas: No-bark Noonan
“Molerat men, come up from the Underneath to steal young women with promises of riches and fancy mud mansions with all the latest designer appliances.”
- No-bark Noonan, Fallout: New Vegas
According to No-bark, if a man is “friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span,” chances are he has “done something even his own ma couldn't forgive.”
You can read more about No-bark Noonan here:
https://fallout.wiki/wiki/No-bark_Noonan
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Gutter Garbs has released a Monster Squad design by Sam Coyne on T-shirts ($30) and 12x18 posters ($36) along with a set of five buttons designed by Beyond Horror Design ($7). They'll ship the week of June 30.
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I was always enraged at the way capitalism has devalued some of the most important labour in human history, but now I'm even more angry since I have started getting more into crafts.
So many people are alienated from the world to such an extent they don't realize how fucking important textiles and construction and art and culinary labour is, because its all ubiquitous under capitalism: it is all profit, and if it isn't profit, then it is worthless. People don't realize just how revolutionary all of the labour was, how important it is, and was, to our survival. And that enrages me.
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i like how fallout 2 was just like "so yeah, you and the vault dweller are both religious figures; go on a journey to save your whole village, nuke an oil rig, and come back 40 years later as a lunatic in the middle of a town guarded by snipers on top of a giant dinosaur"
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