OT- interesting event at work tonight

lordmarcovan

I just had the opportunity to evict a live rattlesnake from our hotel lobby when I came in tonight.

My female coworker had called Security, who declined the invitation and passed it off to Engineering. Both of them were off site and would've taken a while to get here, anyway.

Some loudly drunk bar patrons were poking at it with a golf umbrella and wanted me to kill it, but I'm too softhearted when it comes to critters (even snakes), so I threw a towel over it, carried it outside, and tossed it into the woods by the marsh.

I wouldn't have attempted that if it had been a big one, but this was just a little guy. Dunno if it was a pygmy rattler or a baby diamondback, but rattlesnake it was.

I have informed all of my coworkers that they may now respectfully refer to me as "The Snakemaster".

To make this topical, post your coins with snakes on 'em. I can't think of any in my personal collection, but I know there are a lot of cool ancients with snakes, and some modern NCLT comes to mind as well.

lordmarcovan

Oh, I've got one, after all. A Feuchtwanger cent from my old Holey Coin Vest collection.

TIF2

Excellent wrangling, Snakemaster! Good job returning it to the wild.

I have one rather crummy Feuchtwanger. While I've been selling my non-ancient coins, this one will probably stay. They're pretty cool

lordmarcovan

TIF2, I happen to know you've got some cool "snakey" ancients, too, so show 'em off!

SmEagle1795

Glad to hear your snake charming didn't result in you becoming even more holey!

I have two snakes on coins, the first from Elis, minted for the 112th Olympics:



and then on my Sikyon stater (the tail ends in the head of a snake):

Zohar

Mother and son.

harasha

I could not find an image of the medal that I really wanted to post, referencing a folk tale about allowing a snake into your home. I could not find the actual medal. So:

Reverse of Anne Coronation medal -



and the reverse of an Elizabeth II coronation medal from South Africa -

TIF2

Wow, there are some fantastic snake coins in this thread!

LordM is correct, I do have a few more

Celtic snake, biting an automaton-ish figure on the nose:



A snake-charming nymphs (Sicily, Selinos AR litra)



Sikyon stater. The chimera's snake-head is off flan



Snake-on-stick-on-flying snake: a provincial of Caracalla featuring Asklepios.

Swampboy

Lord of the Snakes has a nice ring to it.

OriginalDan

Sounds like a fun night, LM. You were like the eagle on this reverse.

bronzemat

I have several ancients with snakes but too lazy to upload and post them.

I wouldnt have chanced grabbing it. I thought the baby rattle poison is worse then the adult?

lordmarcovan

Just as OT as my snake story, but interesting to tell, I had a cool encounter in the hotel tonight. Some musicians came back in late from a gig at our swanky five-star sister resort, The Cloister. They wanted some help microwaving their box lunch sandwiches, so I let 'em into the kitchen where the microwave is, and we shot the breeze a while their food was reheating. It turns out they are both singers. One used to be with Kansas and the other with Journey, and one was for a time the frontman of one of those famous classic bands! That was pretty cool. I can't tell you their names due to our guest privacy and nondisclosure policies, but suffice it to say that both are famous enough to have Wikipedia entries under their names.

Though this is a very quiet and mostly solitary job, it can be interesting at times. But I'll take Rock & Roll royalty over rattlesnakes any night of the week.

asheland

Rob, when I was working at the Doubletree Hotel in Biltmore, the actor that played Candyman stayed there one night on my shift!
You never know who will be there!

brg5658

All hail the snakemaster!



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asheland

brg5658:
That Mexican copper is superb!

Tookybandit

We had a scorpion at work when I was in Chula Vista, CA (South of San Diego). It was one of those fierce little yellow green ones that could send you to the E.R. I kept it as a pet in a terrarium for over a year ...until it had a whole bunch of babies all by itself!

lordmarcovan

<< <i>We had a scorpion at work when I was in Chula Vista, CA (South of San Diego). It was one of those fierce little yellow green ones that could send you to the E.R. I kept it as a pet in a terrarium for over a year ...until it had a whole bunch of babies all by itself! >>

Scorpions and big spiders freak me out far worse than snakes do, for some reason. Ugh.

Fortunately scorpions are fairly rare here, at least in my experience.

TIF2

<< <i>Scorpions and big spiders freak me out far worse than snakes do, for some reason. Ugh.

Fortunately scorpions are fairly rare here, at least in my experience. >>



Snakes, no problem. Big spiders, no problem. Scorpions though... SHRIEK! I find them in my home every week or two. On the floor, in the washing machine, in the sink, in drawers.

ajaan

TIF2, what kind of scorpions? Desert? or the kind found in humid areas like we had in Thailand.

theboz11

TIF2

<< <i>TIF2, what kind of scorpions? Desert? or the kind found in humid areas like we had in Thailand. >>



I'm not sure of the genus and species but not the giant ones. I'm in a semitropical climate, probably similar to Thailand.

Most of the scorpions I find look more or less like this:



I've never been stung by one and that is part of my fear... the unknown. I hope to keep it that way though.

SYRACUSIAN

Some loudly drunk bar patrons were poking at it with a golf umbrella and wanted me to kill it, but I'm too softhearted when it comes to critters (even snakes), so I threw a towel over it, carried it outside, and tossed it into the woods by the marsh.


Good job Rob. It's bad karma to kill a living being without a valid reason.

Funny that in every single coin posted, the snake is captured by an eagle or other bird.

TIF2

<< <i>
Funny that in every single coin posted, the snake is captured by an eagle or other bird. >>



Not so... go back and review the ancient coins I posted on page one. Snakes are common on ancient coins and as often as not they are depicted in a positive manner, often as an adjunct to a deity.

SYRACUSIAN

Oops, you're right. Sorry.