I'd like to share - R.R. - L.Antestius Gragulus

Wouldn't that be a goat-powered Cupid?

 

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Superb coin TIF! I love it! What other types are out there?
(You must have pressed your 'post' key a moment before I did.)

 

I was thinking of Cupid digging his heels into the flanks of the goat to get it to move, thereby providing the 'power'. It works both ways.

 

LOL, I LOVE the Goat Biga...wish I had one. I just envision the contrast from a Triumph with an Imperator riding in with gallant horses drawing the biga vs. someone parading in with a couple goats dragging a kids wagon at the State Fair!

 

Wow, great examples, gang ... I love this place!!

Ummm, here are a few of my humble non-horse bigas ...

 

Ooops, sorry Topcat => congrats on adding a fantastic OP-coin

cheers, coin-bro

 

Nice ones, Steve-O!

Since we're on the tangent, here are the rest of my Alt-Trans coins:

The newest, from CICF and one of four Roman Egyptian coins I brought home from that show:

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius
year 14, CE 150/1
AE drachm, 34 mm, 28.78 gm
Obv: AVTKTAIΛAΔPANTωNINOCCEBEVC; laureate head of Antoninus Pius left
Rev: Triptolemos standing right in serpent biga; LIΔ in top field
Ref: Emmett 1683.14

Another Triptolemos, although it's difficult to see the serpents on this tight flan (looks more like he's sitting in a winged wheelchair):

ATTICA, Eleusis
360-330 BC
AE16
Obv: Triptolemos, seated left in a winged chariot drawn by two snakes
Rev: Pig standing right on mystic staff, (bucranium below?)
Ref: SNG Cop 415


THRACE, Pautalia. Caracalla
CE 198-217
AE29, 16.4 gm
Obv: AYT K M AY CEY ANTΩNEINOC; Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: OYΛΠIAC ΠAYTAΛIAC; Asklepios seated right on back of winged serpent
Ref: Varbanov 5007

Hippocamp quadriga!

PHOENICIA, Berytos
1st century BCE
Æ19.5, 5.9 gm
Obv: Turreted head of Tyche right
Rev: Poseidon standing left in quadriga drawn by four hippocamps
Ref: SNG Copenhagen 83

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Boy, there are a ton of other interesting Alt-Trans coins just waiting to be collected! Bigas of lions, elephants, stags, panthers...

 

=>back-atcha, Coin Princess ... I hope you're having a great Friday night

 

Nice coins, Steve.

So we now have documented evidence that Santa, Cleopatra VII, AND John Wayne ALL drove Bigas.
(Funny. I always pictured John Wayne as more of a 'Bronco' man.)

 

Congrats Topcat! Don't ever feel you can't post your coins...especially RR!