It's Forever Ferocious Friday!! Post your coins as well.

I'm calling it, "Forever Ferocious Friday!". Where using your imagination is the name of the game and the animals or people are not so much tame. like its says, animals or people can be ferocious.
Here are a few of mine..............
Have a great Friday all!

 

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Bulls are pretty ferocious when they want to be.

 

It’s what’s left of a zinc cent.

 

St George killed the ferocious dragon.

 

That coin's had a tough life. Time to put it out of it's misery I think.

Bruce

 

Here are two pretty ferocious fellows from the past:
Nero and Alexander the Great

 

Snakes!


Hadrian (117 - 138 A.D.)
Egypt, Alexandria
Billon Tetradrachm
O: AYT KAI-TPAI AΔPIA CEB, Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind.
R: L Δ_EK_ATOY Agathodaemon erect right at left, wearing skhent and enfolding caduceus, facing Uraeus erect left at right, wearing disk and horns, enfolding sistrum, their tails knotted together and holding a club erect.
Alexandria Mint, 125/126 (Year 10)
10.6g
19.5mm
Emmett 804 Dattari 1552; BMC 668; Milne 1164; Curtis 351; Demetrio 1247


Rare

The Caluceus refers to Hermanubis, the Sistrum is a symbol for Isis and the Club refers to Harpocrates


Nero (54 - 68 A.D.)
Egypt, Alexandria
Billon Tetradrachm
O: NEΡΩ KΛAY KAIS SEBA GEP AVTO, laureate head right.
R: NEO AGAQ DAIM, Agathodaemon serpent, coiled with head up, holding poppies and grain ears, L ς (date) to left. Year 6.
23mm
13.11g
Milne 203; Emmett 106.6 (R4) ; RPC 5260

The Agathodaemon was a good spirit/demon that was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians.
He had the shape of a serpent with a human head.
The Greek inscription on the reverse of this coin shows that this is the "neo" or "new" agathodaemon serpent, or, in other words, the new good spirit (of rule by Nero).


Antoninus Pius (138 - 161 A.D.)
AE diobol
EGYPT, Alexandria
O:Laureate bust r., drapery on l. shoulder.
R: Agathodaemon erect, crowned with skhent; in field, L-IE. issued 151-2 (year 15)
7.45g
23mm
RPC Online 15718 (this coin), Dattari-Savio Pl. 162, 3066 (this coin).

From the Dattari collection.

From the Orfew collection, ex Naville 34 lot 281, 17.09.2017.

Giovanni Dattari assembled what was undoubtedly the best ever collection of Imperial-era Alexandrian coins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; see Lucia Carbone, “Giovanni Dattari and His Fabled Collection of Alexandrian Coins,” ANS Journal (Issue 2, 2018), pp. 6-27.

 

Ferocious eagle.

 

Here's some fierce creatures.

 

St George was a poser

 

Close but no cigar!