"Follow The Leader" coin thread BY THEME (for ALL types of coins, tokens, and medals)

Ah! That reminded me I had this one in my non-British "tangent" collection:

 

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Gnarly bird on this Chile 1915 5 Centavos, the Andean Condor bird is the largest of its kind.

 

Appears to be a 1950
https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=145987

 

I'd call that a 1948 5 sho
https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=83188

 

Time to break out my new medal:

 

Wow! That sure is impressive! Got any more story about it?

 

Nice eagle on this Polish-Lithuanian Szelag, 1665 from the Ujazdow Castle Mint

 

Just got one similar, 1663. Not quite as nice.

 

Very nice. The modern Polish coins honor them quite well in my opinion.

 

Not even a tiny bit yet, other than I found it with a medal-crack dealer who I've now seen at NYINC and now the ANA show. I'd left him a single medal 'want' at NYINC in 2018. A few months later he emailed me with one he'd found in France. It was hideously expensive and I bought it anyway.

Anyway, at the ANA I was admiring another medal (a sliver of one I have in bronze and have been tempted by for a couple shows now), and this one was innocently sitting next to it. Silver, a well known Art Deco medalist, horses, well it hit all the triggers. I'd never seen one before and I look a reasonable amount. I'm sure if I did some digging I could find something about it--Raymond Delamarre has a reasonable body of work.

And, for the thread...resurrecting my two favorite conders, not my best photo work, but I was having fun looking at them. I'm probably going to sell all my conders except these two.

 

Theme still animals, A? Another eagle, 1760 Achen (Aachen, Aken) XII Heller.
I have become kind of hooked on these type coins, now doing die varieties.

 

Cambodia uniface 2 Pe circa, 1847 AD

 

Hamsa bird, cool. Here is a Cameroun 10 francs which maybe I have posted before. I just love those animals on there. Think they are eland.

 

Iran 2000 Dinars 2 Kran, 1926(SH 1305)

 

1950 Italian Somalia 10 centesimi - animals

 

Rhodesia and Nyasaland Two Shillings, 1957

 

Birds on both sides

 

Canadian silver quarter 1937 featuring a caribou


Switching from animals, let's do non-traditional sports (i.e. no football, soccer, baseball, basketball, etc)

Here is my Canadian 2007 $25 silver piece commemorating the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver featuring curling, one of my only colored or holographic coins.

 

Coursing (and it has an animal too ). But the theme is non-traditional sports.

 

Is boxing "non-traditional"?