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Orodes II -47 B.C. Selwood 48.3

 

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Next theme : Europa ( abduction or other )

 

HADRIAN
AE 22
OBVERSE: Laureate head right
REVERSE: Europa riding bull right
Struck at Sidon, Phoenicia, 117/118 AD
8.9g, 22mm
BMC Phoenicia 225

Next: Odd portrait

 

This barbarous radiate facing left is a mite on the odd side.


Radiate

 

Pointy nose Treb Gallus - Pinocchio style





Next theme: Pietas

 

M. HERENNIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS HERENNIA
AR Denarius
OBVERSE: PIETAS, diademed head of Pietas right
REVERSE: M•HERENNI, Amphinomus carrying his father right, control letter in right field (Dot over sideways D)
Struck at Rome 108-109 BC
3.8g, 18mm
Cr308/1b; Syd 567a

Next: Dot plus control letter

 

dot N Ti. Quinctius


Rodent

 

RATS! Nary a rodent in my collection!

 

Collect89 has one of these: Messana Hare He posted this:
https://www.cointalk.com/members/collect89.15445/

 

Rabbits are not rodents. They were classified under the order Rodentia (rodent) until 1912, when they were moved to a new order, Lagomorpha.

 

You're just reminding me how old I am Bing! Haven't found any ancients with bats yet either.

 

Just to clarify: Rodents, gnawing animals of the order Rodentia, are found on all the major landmasses except Antarctica and on most islands. The order includes various species of rats and mice, squirrels, chipmunks, voles, gerbils, hamsters, lemmings,beavers, pocket gophers, guinea pigs, and porcupines. Surely someone has an ancient with a porcupine?

 

Iamtiberius posted this mouse on a Antigonos I Monophthalmos Drachma- the only other rodent a simple search brings up anyway.

 

Looks like a rabbit to me.

 

Mice aren't quite the only numismatic rodents; there are scarce coins of Cyrene in all metals depicting a jerboa, a hopping desert rodent of the family dipodidae which bears a certain resemblance to a kangaroo. Not my collecting field so I don't have one; this image is borrowed from Triton XIX, lot 2114. The jerboa is hiding under the silphium like a fairy under a mushroom:

 

The Kings of Macedon maybe have the mice around to feed their eagles?
Kings of Macedon. Lampsakos. Alexander III "the Great" 336-323 BC. Drachm AR 17mm., 4,16g. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; mouse in left field, ME monogram below throne. very fine Price 1423....

 

OK

 

LOTSA "WOW's" about that coin! Strike, Jerboa, Silpium, AV?, really nice... Thanks for finding it @Volodya

 

So you're saying that TO THE ANCIENTS, rabbits were rodents. I say give Mike Margolis credit and let him choose a new theme.

And @dougsmit -- That looks like a turtle on that Quinctius with a longer-than-usual tail, not a rodent.

 

This is my ancient rodent rabbit:

I no longer have the rascally rabbit that Mike Margolis posted:

Apene races were first held at the Olympic Games around 500 BC. The tyrant Anaxilas apparently had an Olympic mule-team victory in 480 B.C. and he commemorated it with this coin type.

Unless Mike is going to declare a new theme, then I'll make the next theme olympics or wheel with four spokes.