Dogs and Coins

Here's a neighbourhood stray sniffing a British £500 coin I dropped on the pavement today. Share your pics of dogs and coins!

 

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Fess up, Andy,
You didn't 'drop' that massive coin on the pavement.
You placed it gently over a handful of Kibble & Bits!
J.T.

 

Lucky it didn't land on him. It would've killed him.

 

Alas, I don't have any. Not even dogs on coins.

Please, feel free to drop a handful of these near my house anytime...

 

Please don't let him relieve himself on the Queen!

 

..then, allow me... Doggo Obverse/ Dioscuri Bros. Reverse

 

A Year of the Dog silver bar...not a coin.

 

And what about a PIGGY BANK dog ?


(Not my dog)

 

actually true as it weighs a kilogram (of pure silver)

 

My few dogs/hounds. None in real life, cat person that I am. I've posted them all before, so I'll omit the descriptions this time.

 

My Roman brick with dog paw prints...

 

Amazing. Does anyone know, from what time period, and from what geographical area of the Roman world, this brick is? Early Roman Republic? Late Roman Republic? Early Roman Empire? Late Roman Empire? Italy? Spain? Egypt? Turkey? Gaul? Africa?

 

There aren't a lot of dogs on coins!


Sicily, Segesta, Circa 412/0-405/0 BC, 0.55g 12mm litra
Obv: Head of the nymph Segesta facing slightly left
Rev: Σ-EΓE; Dog (river god Krimisos in canine form?) standing left, shell before, gorgon above dog
ex-H. C. Lindgren, sale 77, November 2002, lot 3

 

..a monument to the Dog who left them..

 

AWESOME!

 

My Blue much younger. My Avatar is two hours before she passed in late December.



Roman Republic
Aes Grave
AE Quadrans
269-242 BCE
Dog
3 pellets Six spoked wheel
59.8g
Craw 24-6a Th-Vecchi 34
ex Sellwood

 

When I originally saw this thread, I was resigned to the fact that I had no ancient dog coins. Last night looking through some recent purchases, I had a "duh" moment. Dog, cow and calf, and dramatically off-center:


Illyria, Dyrrhachium Drachm
Class D5 (57 B.C.)
Zenon and Philodamos
ΞEN[ΩN], cow standing right, looking back at calf which it suckles, [eagle above], hound running right below / [ΔYP Φ]IΛO ΔA [MOY], double stellate pattern in square.
Ceka 362; BMC 131-132.
(3.18 grams / 17 mm)
eBay July 2021

 

How does a guy with an anvil and die punch miss a coin that badly?

 

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