Featured My Wildman Addiction

In a previous post, I recently said:

And look at what just happened. Our thread author, @Chris B, took it upon himself to correct my lack of "Wildness" by just up and sending me a generous and kind gift!

First of all, note the greeting card the coin came in. Looks like an interesting linoleum block print or something. I'd be interested to know if it was his artwork. It's certainly one of a kind. There were two smaller seals with the same design on the outside of the envelope. You know you're dealing with a Wildman fanatic when you get one of these cards!




And here's what was inside the card. (Standard apologies for my quickie cellphone shots.)




How 'bout that, huh? Thanks, @Chris B! That was totally awesome of you!

(I will add that the coin has some subtle but attractive hints of colorful toning which aren't really visible in my subpar photos.)

I am now proud to be a card-carrying Wildman owner, at last.

 

I hail from Brunswick, Georgia (named for Brunswick in Germany, since our town was mapped out during the reign of the Hanoverian King George III), so I suppose I need to add a nice high grade coin of one of the German Brunswick states someday. Maybe another Wildman... maybe a prancing horsie...

 

Lo, there he is. I like what you did with it, artistically. If I had more sophisticated software and skills, I'd play around like that, too.

As to the coin, I will indeed enjoy it. Might pass it along "within the family" when I want to sweeten up one of the future monthly giveaways, but not right now.

Had it been just a teensy bit higher grade, it would be off to PCGS and destined for my Eclectic Box. In fact, I've not entirely ruled that out.

Confession: the main reason I've never owned a Wildman up to now is that they didn't used to "do it for me". Not completely, anyway. I thought they were kinda neat- just not my personal cuppa tea, is all.

I've since evolved into a better appreciation of them. This thread had a lot to do with that, even before you sent the nice gift.

 

I love this one, where he's really swung the tree around. It's a handsome coin regardless, but I just like this particular rendering of the Wildman.

You would not wanna get within tree-swinging distance of this fella!

 

Here's an ancient Greek Wildman of sorts. The obverse portrait is variously described as a satyr or the god Pan (who was the god of... what else? The wild, of course.)

In one of my earlier posts, someone said he looks like "The Wolfman" here, which is a pretty apt comparison, I think. Perhaps the satyr on this ancient coin is the ancestor of these later European Wildmen.

This was also a type that I previously had considered to be kind of neat, but not quite for me. That all changed recently, and I decided I just had to have this one. (I happen to also like griffins a lot.)

Greece (Thrace, Pantakapaion): bronze Æ21, ca. 310-303 BC

Ex-Lodge Antiquities.

 

Well, we've got Paul Bunyan here in North America, after all. Small wonder it's such a popular theme. It's interesting to see how the mythology has morphed over the centuries.

 

Five bucks? Ha! Even if it's fake, that's a good deal.