A coins with an eagles.

The eagle of the Fascist Italy. They used a picture of an old Roman eagle.

 

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The Kingdom of Sardinia. They used an image of an eagle too.

 

Very small eagle as the element of the design of the arms of the principality of Liechtenstein.

 

Polish eagle.
This half-grochen was minted between the 1506 - 1548.

 

The Kingdom of Romania.
The eagle as the element of the arms.

 

Two Czech eagles on the arms of Czechoslovakia.

 

Side note - this is the personal CoA that Pope Pius used; each pope has a different one. And as for the stylized bird on the Icelandic coin, well, that is the stylized version of one of the four guardian spirits of the country, an eagle or a griffin. In the case of the coins issued in 1981, you see all four if you look at all four lower denominations. Then, on the 5 kr coin, you see them combined as on some other Icelandic pieces ...

(Oh, and the "Like" does not apply to a specific coin here, rather to the whole compilation. )

Christian

 

During the Reagan administration, my brother was asked to make a copy of the Great Seal of the President of the United States which is embedded in the floor of the Rotunda in the US Capitol building. The original was showing wear from the constant touching by tourists. He made a "test pour" to determine where the relief needed to be enhanced, and the finished copy is hanging in the White House.

To show his gratitude, President Reagan allowed my brother to keep the "test pour", and he gave it to our father who was a big fan of Reagan. After our mother & father passed, I asked my brother if he would like it back, but he said I could keep it.

It's 33-1/2" in diameter.

Chris

 

What a great story, thanks for sharing!

 

So many coins made my eagles hungry. Ancient eagles ate rabbits, snakes and dolphins but never carried arrows or branches as far as I know.

 

But what about a wreath? Was surely not edible.
https://www.kuenker.de/AuktionDetail.kuenker?los=455&lager=00062

See the image below. Not my coin "of course" as I do not collect ancients ...

Christian

 

What I find interesting is how few modern eagles are real birds as opposed to heraldic devices. I know there are some real birds (parents at the nest on the American gold eagle would count if you call it a coin rather than a NCLT medal) but modern mints tend to dress their eagles in a way a real eagle would find strange. The Roman Republican denarius shown above was ahead of its time holding the wreath in claw. More Roman eagles used the beak for wreath handling.

 

1910-A 20 Marks, from the German state of Prussia. One of my favorite coins.

 

This thread has the potential to include thousands of images & never repeat a single eagle.

Here are 5.

#1 USA Walking Liberty Half Dollar (All US half dollar designs must include an eagle per law).

#2 Italy five Lire.

#3 US bicentennial medal

#4 1933 German 3 mark Aluminum coin.

#5 1913 German 5 mark pattern

 

Five more:

USA Morgan dollar

USA Flying Eagle cent (a flock of flying eagles)

USA 1831 dime

USA Peace dollar

USA Eisenhower dollar

 

I collect US coins so don't mind me when I post my eagles.













Ooh, and look at me! I have a foreign coin!

 

And a bit of advertisement (Token, not coin though)

 

A pair of Teutonic Eagles from countries that no longer exist as such.

Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) 10 Mark. And Austro-Hungarian Empire Double Headed Eagle (100 Corona).

 

Umm, of course the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) does still exist. It's just that it had fewer states (Länder) first. Saarland joined in 1957, and the five "Eastern" states joined in 1990.

That 10 DM is one of the first commems with that denomination by the way; it was issued for the Munich Olympics. Our eagles are hardly ever "naturalistic", and some are downright ug-- ah well.

Christian

 

Here is an 1876 2 mark pattern.

Post some eagles people. :yes: