Well, the final three coins I purchased this month showed up in today's mail. They are all three Roman Republican silver coins and I will show each in their own turn and in their own threads. The first is a coin depicting Hercules on the obverse and the Erymanthian boar on the reverse. The Erymanthian boar is the fourth of Hercules Labors: "For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the Erymanthian boar alive. Now, a boar is a huge, wild pig with a bad temper, and tusks growing out of its mouth. This one was called the Erymanthian boar, because it lived on a mountain called Erymanthus. Every day the boar would come crashing down from his lair on the mountain, attacking men and animals all over the countryside, gouging them with its tusks, and destroying everything in its path. It wasn't too hard for Hercules to find the boar. He could hear the beast snorting and stomping as it rooted around for something to eat. Hercules chased the boar round and round the mountain, shouting as loud as he could. The boar, frightened and out of breath, hid in a thicket. Hercules poked his spear into the thicket and drove the exhausted animal into a deep patch of snow. Then he trapped the boar in a net, and carried it all the way to Mycenae. Eurystheus, again amazed and frightened by the hero's powers, hid in his partly buried bronze jar." There is actually more to this story regarding the Centaurs, but I left that part out for brevity's sake. M. VOLTEIUS M.F. ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS VOLTEIA AR Denarius OBVERSE: Head of young Hercules right, wearing lion skin REVERSE: Erymathian Boar right, M VOLTEI M F in ex Rome 78BC 3.76g, 18mm Syd 775, Cr385/2, Volteia 2 Post your associated coins to include your boars of any kind. Thanks for looking.
Ow wow, love that RR Denarius! @Bing - I wanna go get one like yours! I have his OTHER Denarius: RR Volteius 78 BCE AR Den Jupiter Temple Sear 312 Cr 385/1 I only have the Erymanthian Boar after it is made into a HEADDRESS: RR Anon AE 28mm 19.2g Quadrans - Sicily mint 214-212 BCE Hercules-Erymanthian boar headress - Bull ex RBW Craw 72/7
Apulia, Arpi Coin: Bronze - Laureate head of Zeus left, thunderbolt behind. ARPA - Kalydonian boar running right, spear above. Mint: Arpi (250-200 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 7.17g / 20mm / - References: SNG Morcom 194 SGV 569 var
You have to use your imagination for this one Gaul, Senones Coin: Potin None - Two rampant goats facing one another; pellet between, annulet between hind legs None - Rampant wolf and boar facing one another; pellet between Mint: Gaul (100-60 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 4.20g / 20mm / - References: CCCBM III 466ff De la tour 7458
Yes, nice coin Bing! Here's my porker, again! I really like it.... Epirus, Nikopolis, AE18. Augustus / Head of boar
^Whoa! My humble additions: Arpi, APULIA Æ22, 6.6g, 6h; c. 325-275 BC. Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus left; thunderbolt to right Rev.: Boar standing right; above, spearhead right In Ex.: APΠANΩN I believe mine to be the Calydonian boar. How is one boar determined to be the other? I suppose having Hercules on the obverse sort of sways which boar it is. I'm not much of an expert on Greek mythology. My other boar: Kyzikos, Mysia AR Tritatemorion, 9X12mm, 0.58g; 480-450 BC. Obv.: Forepart of running boar left, tunny fish facing upward. Rev.: Roaring lion. From the collection of Dr. Sidney Mygind Anyone know which boar is on the above coin?
So the thread has moved to PIGS??? Well, I can PIG-OUT! Sooooweeee! Piggies!!! Ionia Klazomenai 480-400 BC AR Drachm Pentobol 3.5g 13mm Forepart winged boar r gorgoneion incuse sq Cf SNG Copenhagen 12 Rare Campania CAPUA AE Uncia 216-211 Diana Boar Hannibal capital Italia RR C Hosidius C F Geta 68 BCE Diana bow quiver Boar Hound spear Sear 346 Craw 407-2 Iberia - Castulo AE14 Quarter Unit Bust - BOAR w-star 2nd C BCE Mysia Kyzikos AR Hemiobol 480-450 BCE 0.4g Boar-Lion Sear 3850 RI Titus 79-81 CE AR Denarius Sow piglets RR Veturius 137 BCE AR Den Mars X Oath Scene pig S 111 Cr 234-1 Marsic Confederation denarius 90-88 BCE Italia-Corfinium Oath Ceremony over pig Sear 227 SCARCE
Wow, Carthago really "brought-it!" Congrats, Big-Bro => yah, this is a very cool coin-type (great coin) Oh and yah, I have an example too ... Congrats again, coin-bro (one of my favourite coin-types)
