Ancient Coin Animals by Alphabet

Here are a couple of my sweet ol' cast-AE CRAB favourites from Akragas ...

 

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Hey, I'm pretty sure that TIF said that we're allowed to toss-in mythical animals, right?

Ummm, so how 'bout this sweet ol' Chimaera?!!

Sikyonia, Sikyon
360-330 BC
Chimaera & Dove

 

Oh, and here are my cow additions (no bull) ...

Illyria, Dyrrhachion Brockage Error
200-37 BC
Cow w. suckling calf & Brockage Error


Dyrrhachium
200-37 BC
Suckling Calf & Linear square

 

Yes, inclusion of mythological animals is fine. Also, for any latecomers, feel free to backtrack to prior letters.

Thanks for the Chimera reminder, Steve!


SIKYONIA, Sikyon
335-330 BCE
AR stater, 23 mm, 12.3 gm
Obv: Chimera standing left; wreath above, ΣE below
Rev: Dove flying left; A to left; all within wreath
Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 220; Traité III 775, pl. CCXX, 11
from the "Collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C.H. Wolfe, 3 May 1989"

 

The ship of the desert, my friends ...

=> yup, I get camel credit!!

M.Aemilius Scaurus
58 BC
King kneeling beside camel

 

=> no problemo, princess ... ummm, tomorrow we can post it again as "Dove" (this is easy, eh?)



... cool thread, coin sister

 

... and last, but not least

=> it's time for the sweet ol' crocodile rock!!

 

I tried to corral a couple of cows this week, but only this one followed me home.



ILLYRIA, Dyrrhachion
Circa 340-280 BC
AR Stater
10.69g, 19mm
Maier 2 var. (position of club); Meadows, CH (forthcoming) 69 (this coin); BMC 5 var. (position of club).
O: Cow standing right, looking back at suckling calf standing left below.
R: Vertical double stellate pattern divided by line, in double linear square border; to right, club upward; ethnic retrograde around; all within linear circle border.

 

Another camel, drachm of Trajan, Bostra, Provincia Arabia...



I keep meaning to clean this coin - a little lemon juice on the obverse should do the trick, but I never seem to get around to it.

 

Also, don't forget that some of you big spenders have an Uraeus on some of your Alexandrian tets, which is a cobra.

 

I'm gonna wait for "S-snake"

 

Sounds good to me. I'll post them under C rather than S-snake.

I'll post my non-cobra-y snakes under S

C is for Uraeus Snake Cobra.


EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian
year 11, CE 126/7
diobol
Obv: AVTKAITPAIAΔPIACEB; Laureate head right
Rev: Uraeus standing erect left; LENΔEKATOV
Ref: Emmett 1145(11) R1, Milne 1220a

I have another but I'll post it under its other animal.

Steve, don't you want to unleash the cobras here instead of under Snake?

 

Sweet Cobra!! .... but I'm still gonna wait for the slitherin' snake day!!

 

C is for Centaurs.




(sorry for the gigantic pics haha)

 

Illyria, Apollonia. Ca. 250-200 B.C. AR drachm (15.8 mm, 3.34 g, 5 h). Timen and Damophontos, magistrates. TIMHN, Cow standing right with suckling calf; ΓAK monogram below / AΠOΛ ΔAMOΦΩNTOΣ, Double stellate pattern. Ceka 115; BMC 14; Mionnet 19.


Trajan AD 98-117 AR Denarius Obv: IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P- Laureate bust right, draped left shoulder. Rev: SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI - Arabia standing front, head left, holding branch; at her feet, a camel. Exe: ARAB ADQ Rome mint: AD 112-114. RIC II, 245

 

Sweet CCCC coins folks..

My first,
The coin that made Steve's Brockage error..
Cow Bos (Bovis) nursing calf, that's two CC's
Apollonia..229-100 BC.
Ar.Drachm
19mm x 3.34g.



We have Crocodilus..My Nemausus
Augustus and Agrippa.27BC-14AD..
Ae, As.
28mm x 13.5g


Last,
Gallienus
Ae,
Centaur...
20mm x 3.54g

 

Camel :


M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus. Denarius Rome mint, 58 BC
M SCAVR AED CVR In two lines above camel, EX | SC, in exergue REX ARETAS, King Aretas of Nabataea, kneeling right beside a camel, holding an olive branch
P HVPSAEVS AED CVR in two lines, CAPTVM in the right field, C HVPSAE COS PREIVER in two lines, Jupiter driving a quadriga left, holding a thunderbolt
Ref : RCV #379


Croc :


Augustus & Agrippa, AE halved dupondius Halved dupondius struck in Nemausus, after 10 BC
3rd type
[IM]P [DI]VI F , Laureate head of Augustus right
[COL NEM], Crocodile chained to palm tree
6.70 gr
Ref : RCV #1730, Cohen # 10

Q

 

Lookin' good so far, gang! The list so far:

[in brackets: shown but not owned]
(in parentheses: mythological)

Antelope
Aquila/eagle
Ass
Bear
Bee
Bird
Bison
Boar
Bull
[Butterfly]
Camel
(Chimera)
(Centaur)
Cobra/Uraeus
Cockle/Clam
Cow
Crab
Crocodile
Crow

 

So, it's probably better to save roosters for R.

Or we'd be looking at a page of Steve's self-edits.

 

Centaur