Funky Chicken!

I saw this fun little coin going cheap at auction and I thought to myself, "That would make a fine little snack!"



What's not to like? It's from Antioch in Pisidia, it's an Antonine, and most of all, it's got a chicken!


Pseudo-autonomous.
Roman provincial Æ 13 mm, 1.2 g.
Antioch, Pisidia, time of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.
Obv: ANTIOCH, draped bust of Mercury/Hermes (head assimilated to portrait of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar), left; to right, caduceus.
Rev: COLONI, chicken walking right.
Refs: RPC IV.3, 7350 (temporary); BMC 19.176,1 (pl. XXXI, 1); SNG von Aulock 4916; Krzyżanowska 140–1, VII.7–9; cf. SNG BN 1067.

Post your coins with chickens or fowl of any kind or coins of Antioch in Pisidia!

 

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Awesome pickup, @Roman Collector ... fun coin

I have a worn / corroded Rooster

CHICKEN / ROOSTER


Campania Cales 256-240 BC AE 18 Athena Cock Star

 

Nice coin RC. Good addition to your collection.

 

Thanks a lot RC. Now I'm gonna have the song "Funky Chicken" stuck in my head for the rest of the week end...I hate you.

 

Those are great little coins! I don't have any chickens.

 

LOL, I have to toss this out there...

India Maurya ser VIB AR Karshapana punchmark 270-175 BCE

Mine has a "Hill Chicken". I looked it up, and they also call it a Peacock... I like Hill Chicken... And mine has TWO Hill Chickens....


India Maurya
Series VIB
AR Karshapana punchmark 270-175 BCE
Here is the seller's description (got this some time ago)
Obverse Five official punches.
(See image below for the official marks)
Reverse One small official mark
Date c. 270-175 BCE
Weight 3.14 gm.
Dimensions 15 x 12 mm.
Die axis n.a.
Reference GH 570
Comments
According to Gupta and Hardaker, the Series VIb coins are issues of the Mauryan empire at its peak. They date these coins to c. 270-175 BCE, the time of Ashoka and his successors. Ashoka, of course, was the emperor who spread the word of the Buddha throughout his empire. The Series VIb coins have a small official punch on the reverse, which repeats one of the punches on the obverse. This coin has a peacock/Hill Chicken on a three-arched hill as its obverse and reverse mark.
Image of punches:

 

This is what popped into my head when I read it:

 

My kids used to do the Funky Chicken all the time growing up.

Then we moved to Wisconsin where it is a silly tradition that you have to do a silly oompa-song “Chicken Dance” at weddings!

3 of my 6 daughters were married in WI. I hate the “Chicken Dance”!
(This is off the web, and not one of our weddings).

 

Great addition, RC. A cute little coin with good reverse details.

 

The Evolution of Coins...

 

Indeed, a neat coin!

 

@yakpoo reminded me that I do indeed have a coin with a chicken on it. Not ancient but still beautiful.

As to not be redundant:

France
20 Francs
1876A
Obverse: Standing Genius writing the Constitution, rooster at right, fasces at left
Reverse: Denomination above date within circular wreath

 

No chickens in my albums but some Pisidia coins



PISIDIA, Antiochia. Julia Domna. Augusta, AD 193-217. Æ 23mm . Draped bust right / Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia. SNG France 1126-34



Pisidia, Antiochia. Volusian. A.D. 251-253. AE 22 IMP CAE RASLLOVNAHNIR, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Volusian right, seen from behind / ANTIOC-HIO CL / S - [R], aquila between two legionary standards. SNG France 1294; SNG Copenhagen 85; BMC 135.



Pisidia, Antioch, Commodus. RPC 7378 23 mm 5.21 g

 

...I for one am needing some more from the Wattstax concert (Los Angeles, 1972).

 

I have no ancient coins with fowl, but I do have this coin that's not ancient:

France, AR Ecu de 6 livres françois, Paris 1792 (L'An 4), Mintmark A. Obv. Bare head Left, LOUIS XVI ROI DES FRANCOIS/ Rev. Winged Genius of France standing right, inscribing Constitution on tablet set on column; in left field, fasces topped by liberty cap; in right field, rooster standing left; REGNE DE LA LOI. In exergue, in two lines: L'AN 4 DE LA LIBERTE. KM 615.1, Davenport 1335, Gadoury 55. 39 mm., 29.4 g. Purchased March 5, 1986 from Harmer, Rooke Numismatists, Ltd., New York.



Plus a couple of ancient artifacts that aren't coins:

Corinth, Aryballos, Late 7th-Early 6th Century BCE, Rooster & Swan with Floral Decorations, 62 mm. H x 56 mm. W at widest point. Purchased 2019:











Athens, Attica, Black-Figure Lekythos, 6th Century BCE, Pygmy with spear advancing on rooster advancing on second pygmy with spear, 89 mm. (3 1/2") H. Purchased 2019 (ex. Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 30, 1970):

 

..ahahahaa! ><...crack me UP Brian! ..oh heck..i saw a joke today along the same lines calling squirrels 'chicken of the trees' (tuna chicken of the sea ref.)

 

that's a kool one RC! ...i call 'fowl' cause i have none yet ...(but i have bid on'em)

 

My mom used to talk about being a little kid in the Missouri Ozarks during the Depression. Trouble with squirrels was that you could never get rid of all the squirrel shot. Almost like the bones on a fish.