Ancient beer caps
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Category: Regional History or Period History
Forum Name: Ancient Mediterranean and Europe
Forum Discription: Greece, Macedon, Rome and other cultures such as Celtic and Germanic tribes
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Topic: Ancient beer caps
Posted By: Philhellene
Subject: Ancient beer caps
Date Posted: 21-Apr-2007 at 15:16
Why some of the ancient bronze coins look like beer caps?
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Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 22-Apr-2007 at 11:38
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Well the Greeks were vinos, not lagerlouts, and those look Greek to me. Maybe a better question is why do beer caps look like coins? -------------  Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: ulrich von hutten
Date Posted: 22-Apr-2007 at 14:44
That was a commercial gimmik of the Spartan Bräu. For hundred of them the usual spartan get a t-shirt of the battle of the 300.
 BCB = Beat Cerxes' Bastards ( even a spartan beer company had a bad orthography) ------------- 
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Posted By: Athanasios
Date Posted: 23-Apr-2007 at 13:12
The sad thing is that in ancient Greek ruins you can usually find modern beer caps and stuff...
 I think that Greeks used wax caps to protect the content of their vases...
Anyway, it is bound for those "beer caps" to be just coins(ovolos had even a more strange shape) ------------- 
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Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 01-Dec-2018 at 14:11
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Bottle caps as we know them didn't appear until the late 19th cent. Prior they used porcelain stoppers on a wire bail. Grolsch beer still uses them. ------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |