I recall TIF and I believe Steve have examples of this coin, and when they showed their examples I told myself I had to have one. Of course, mine had to be a budget example. So, besides horses, I now have bigas drawn by lions, cupids, and now snakes. Are there any others? M. VOLTEIUS M.F. ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS VOLTEIA AR Denarius OBVERSE: Head of Bacchus or Liber right, wreathed with ivy REVERSE: Ceres holding two torches, in biga of serpents right. Symbol in left field (double headed axe) Rome 76BC 3.75g, 18mm Volteia 3; Cr385/3; Sear 314
I do not have a Volteius snake biga but it is on the perpetual BUY list!! Congrats on nabbing one I made a list of non-horse bigas and quadrigas but whether I can find where it was saved... probably not
I see Harlan places these in 75 BC. IDK. You need to read his paragraphs on the coin and get your foxfire ready. (or is it Firefox?)
Nice snake biga, Bing. One of these hasn't slithered its way into my collection yet. There are also goat (driven by Juno), stag (Diana), centaur (Hercules) and hippocamp (Neptune) bigas. Have I missed out any? My seahorsey one... ROMAN REPUBLIC Q. Crepereius M. f. Rocus Serrate denarius 3.69g, 18mm Rome mint, 69 BC Crawford 399/1b O: Bust of Amphitrite right, seen from behind, Octopus to left. R: Neptune in biga of hippocamps, brandishing trident, control mark above; Q. CREPER. M. F. ROCVS in two lines below. Ex Andrew McCabe Collection
Oh yeah, the centaur. Thanks for the reminder, Z ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Aurelius Cotta 139 BCE AR Denarius, 20 mm, ? gm (can't find my scale right at the moment ) Obv: helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) behind; COTA before; dotted border Rev: Hercules carrying a club, driving biga of centaurs right; centaurs each carrying a branch; M·AVRELI (AVR is ligate); in exergue, ROMA; line border Ref: Crawford 229/1b; Sydenham 429; Aurelia 16 formerly slabbed, NGC bulk submission holder, "VF" Goat biga: Roman Republic fourree mule denarius L. Antestius Gragulus, 136 BCE, and C. Renius, 138 BCE ancient forgery, 3.18 gm Obv: Roma helmeted head right, * below chin, GRAG behind Rev: Juno Caprotina in a biga of goats, C・RENI below, ROMA in exergue Ref: Obverse S.115, Cr.238/1, Syd.451, RSC Antestia 9; Reverse S.108, Cr.231/1, Syd.432, RSc Renia 1 https://www.cointalk.com/threads/mule-or-goat-both-gragulus-renius-fourée-denarius.270214/ Roman Republic moneyer L. Julius L. f. Caesar, 103 BC AR denarius, 17mm, 3.9 gm Obv: Helmeted head of Mars left; CAESAR; ・J above Rev: Venus Genetrix in chariot left, drawn by two Cupids; lyre to left; ・J above Ref: Crawford 320/1 Jencek E-auction 26, lot 58, 14 October 2014. Ex CNG XXXI lot 699, September 1994; ex RBW Collection ROMAN REPUBLIC Moneyer Q. Crepereius M.f. Rocus 69 BCE (revised from Crawford's 72 BCE) AR serrate denarius; 3.99 gm Obv: draped bust of Amphitrite seen from behind, with head turned r.; behind, sea anemone; horizontal I to right of right shoulder (only partly visible on this coin) Rev: Neptune in biga of hippocamps right, holding reins and brandishing trident; above, I and below, Q·CREPER·M·F / ROCVS Ref: Crawford 399/1b; Babelon Crepereia 1. Sydenham 796a. Rare. from HJB BBS 200, October 2016 ex NAC 78 lot 1828, from the JD Collection of Roman Republican Coins 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
Nice biga, I don't have any biga coin at all. No snakes, horse, mouse... Looks like I got to fix that.
Wow, Big-bro => congrats on the OP Snake-Biga ... Sadly, I don't have an AR example of that cool type (TIF & Mentor are the members with that cool example) Ummm, but I do have a humble AE example, if you wanna see it? Congrats again => that is a very cool addition to your fine AR-RR collection!!
