Post your Elephants

Arrived this morning....

Ref Antoninus Pius AE As, RIC 862a, Cohen 565, BMC 1840

Antoninus Pius Æ as.
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS
P P TR P XII Laureate head right
MVNIFICENTA AVG
Elephant standing right
COS IIII S C in ex. Cohen 565.

 

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Nice! I have only a few elephants:


Philip I, AD 244-249.
Roman AR Antoninianus, 3.73 g, 22.4 mm, 7 h.
Rome, AD 247.
Obv: IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate and draped bust, right.
Rev: AETERNITAS AVGG, elephant guided by mahout with goad and wand, walking left.
Refs: RIC 58; Cohen 17; RCV 8921; Hunter 31.

This one is TINY:

Antiochos III, 223-187 BC.
Seleucid Æ 2.41g, 13.6 mm, 11 h.
Lydia, Sardes.
Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right.
Rev: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY, legend above and below elephant advancing left; upturned anchor before.
Refs: SC 979; HGC 9, 560; Newell, WSM 1114; SNG Spaer 615.

This one's not much bigger:

Laodike IV, wife and sister of both Seleucus IV and Antiochus IV.
Selucia in Pieria, 175-164 BC.
AE 3.33 gm; 15 mm.
Obv: Veiled bust of Laodike IV, r.
Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ (of King Antiochus), elephant head l.; prow.
Refs: Houghton, CSE 113 (plate coin); Forrer 183.

 

Mirum elephantus, @Pishpash ! (Thanks to GOOGLE Translate )

Correction: Mirus elephantus

Thanks, @Roman Collector !

 

O very nice Pish! ...as of yet, not that i'm not looking, i've no elephants to share.

 

You'll catch elephant fever soon enough!

 

i was looking at some yesterday,but the quality of the coins left something to be desired..

 

Shame on Google Translate for associating a nominative neuter singular adjective with a nominative masculine singular noun. It should be mirus elephantus.

 

On a side note, elephant is a really old word. It comes into English (and other modern European languages) from the Latin elephantus (alternate forms in Latin include elephas and elephans), which in turn comes from the Greek ἐλέφας.

Greek ἐλέφας, however, may come from proto-Berber and Egyptian roots! See this interesting article on its etymology.

 

Great coin, Pish! Here's mine:


Antoninus Pius
AE As, Struck 148-149 AD, Rome Mint
Issued in commemoration of the elaborate games held in 147 AD to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the founding of Rome.
Obverse: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII, Head of Antoninus Pius, laureate, right
Reverse: MVNIFICENTIA AVG, elephant walking right, COS IIII S-C below
Reference: RIC III 862a, Cohen 565, BMC 1840
Size: 27mm, 8.2g

Is it me or do these coin types often appear pretty rough and rugged? I'm pretty sure @zumbly has one too.

 

Titus
Philip

 

Rough and rugged? Well, I thought mine was just plain ol' beat-up. But yeah, I can go with rough and rugged, too . Pish's new one is nicer, though.

 

My favorite elephant (and Rome's least favorite elephant), from Hannibal:

 

Commodus as


Septimius Severus denarius

 

Great coins all.

Best I can do.

Otho Billon Tetradrachm of Alexandria . YEAR 1
C. 69 AD
13.44g
25mm
obv. Otho laureate head right, LA before / rev. bust of Alexandria right in elephant skin headdress. RPC 5358. Dattari 324
Grey tone with good metal and detail. SCARCE
Ex John Casey Collection

 

Great coin Pishpash, of one scarcer issue of A/Pius. Congrats.

 

Love Hannibal coins

 

Hey AJ,

stunning in every way

 

needs cleaning probably Trajan could also be a hippo

 

Great elephants, everyone! Here are mine: Philip I, Caracalla, and Elagabalus.

 

That's a cool AP AE elephant @Pishpash ! Man, there are some sweet elephants here!

My elephants (and Pius coins) make for slim pickings in my collection unfortunately. Here is an Shahi kings of Kabul elephant from the tail end of the first millennium. There reverse is a lion.