Mooooooooo!!! => calling all ancient Bull & Cow Coins!! (Mooooooo)

Mooooooooo!!! => calling all ancient Bull & Cow Coins!! (Mooooooo)

Man, ya gotta love all of the animal coins, but the Bull/Cow coins are defiitely amongst the coolest of the whole animal coindom!!

This is my oldest Bull:

Lydia AR Siglos
545-520 B.C.
Diameter: 15.6 mm
Weight: 4.9 grams
Obverse: Confronted Lion and Bull
Reverse: Two incuse square punches

 

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Macedonia, Acanthus AR Tetrobol
(470-380)
Obv.: Forepart of bull kneeling left, looking back, swastika above.
Rev.: Quadripartite incuse square.
SNG ANS 44-6. BMC 38.

 

Macedon, Akanthos AR Tetrobol
circa 470-390 B.C.
Diameter: 16 mm
Weight: 2.31 grams
Obverse: Forepart of bull left, head right; two laurel branches above
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square with grnulated recesses
Reference: SNG ANS 35

 

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GREEK, Mysia, Parium AR Hemidrachm
4th cent. BC
Obv.: Gorgoneion with protruding tongue, EP monogram in hair.
Rev.: ΠΑ / ΡΙ, bull standing left, head reverted, wreath between legs.
SNG Aul. - ; SNG Cop. - ; BMC -

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*rats* => ya beat me to the punch!!

 

Thrace, Byzantion AR Tetradrachm
(387-339 BC)
Obv.: Heifer standing left on dolphin; monogram above and under raised leg.
Rev.: Granular quadripartite incuse square.
Schönert-Geiss 688 (this coin illustrated); SNG BM Black Sea 4 var. (monogram).

 

Lucania, Poseidonia AR Nomos
(470-445 BC)
Obv.: Poseidon, naked but for the chlamys over shoulders, walking r., brandishing trident in r. hand and extending l. arm. POMEM right.
Rev.: Bull walking right. POMES retrograde.
SNG ANS 646.

 

Mysia Parion AR Hemidrachm
4th Century B.C.
Diameter: 15 mm
Weight: 2.23 grams
Obverse: Head of Gorgoneion facing, tongue protruding, head surrounded by snakes
Reverse: Bull standing left, head right; below, grain ear right
Reference: SNG France 1373-6; BMC 23

 

PHOKIS, FEDERAL COINAGE AR Triobol
OBV: Bull’s head facing
REV: Laureate head of Apollo right, Φ-Ω before, lyre behind
Struck at Phokis, 357-346 BC
2.50g, 14mm
Ex Rockefeller University / Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection
SNG Cop 121

 

Wow, you're too darn quick!! ... I'm slowly typin' and you're quickly posting!! (it's kinda like fighting Neo from the Matrix!!)

 

Bithynia, Kalchedon AR Siglos Bull
circa 340-320 B.C.
Diameter: 17 mm
Weight: 5.31 grams
Obverse: KALC (KALX) Kalchedon/Calchedon? ... Bull standing on grain ear
Reverse: "mill-sail" incuse
Reference: SNG Cop 348

 

Thrace Byzantion AR Hemidrachm
circa 340-320 B.C.
Diameter: 14 mm
Weight: 2.48 grams
Obverse: Cow standing left on dolphin
Reverse: Incuse "mill-sail" punch
Reference: SNG BM 36-41

 

Wow, gorgeous "Cattle" my brothers ... please keep 'em comin' ...

=> Round 'em up!!!

 

Titus denarius Eastern mint o under bust ex Mabbot sale

Titus has a range of bulls and cows. Some look placid and slender while others are butting and muscular.

 

Neapolis AR Nomos
320-300 B.C.
Diameter: 20.6 mm
Weight: 7.4 grams
Obverse: Diademed female head right (Parthenope, nymph)
Reverse: Man-headed bull walking right; Nike flying above, crowning bull, DI below
Reference: SNG ANS 327

 

Lucania, Thurium, Ar Nomos, 4th C. B.C.
Obv:- Head of Athena in Attic helmet decorated with Skylla
Rev:- ΘOYPIΩN above, Bull butting right, tunny fish in exe.
Minted in Thurium. 4th Century B.C.

 

Mysia, Parion, Silver hemidrachm
Obv:– Facing Gorgoneion, surrounded by snakes.
Rev:– PA / RI, bull standing left, looking back right
Minted in Parion, 350 - 300 B.C.
Reference:– BMC Mysia p. 95, 14
2.427g, 13.8mm

Ex-Forum, Ex-Lanz.

 

My only coin with a bull & no cows.


Macedon, Amphipolis. 187-168/7 BC
Æ 21
O: Draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver on shoulder.
R: Artemis Tauropolos riding right on bull, veil billowing out behind her.
21mm
9.5g
SNG ANS 150-1

 

Phokis, Silver hemidrachm, Federal Coinage. Circa 457-446 B.C.
Obv:– Bull's head facing.
Rev:– F-O-K-, Archaic, head of Artemis right, in incuse square
Minted in Phokis, Federal Coinage. Circa 457-446 B.C.

Weight 2.95g. Size 14.15 mm