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

Nidhoggr. Mythical Norse Dragon who gnaws on the roots of the tree of life.

Here is a copper round of Nidhoggr as well. The tree of life is depicted on the reverse.

 

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Hellenistic Kingdom of Pontus
85-65 BCE
AE Copper
Obv: Aegis or Gorgon facing front
Rev: Nike walking right, carrying palm-branch with AMI to left, ΣOY to right​

 

Romulus and Remus and a She Wolf. Romulus and Remus are the mythical sons of Mars, the Roman god of War. After their mother , Silvia, is imprisoned they were thrown into the Tiber River. They were later found and raised by a she wolf and a cricket. According to legend they later went on to be the founders of Rome.

I believe this is a Barbarous ancient though I have yet to pin it down.

 

Hindu Gods Vishnu/ Siva
Vijayanagar
AV 1/2 Pagoda ND
Hari Hari 1414-43

 

Kushan Empire
AV Dinara ND Peshawar Mint
Kaniskha I 127-52AD
reverse: Moon God "Mao"

 

Another one from my Nordic Creatures copper round set.

This one depicts Odin, a prominent Norse God, on his stallion, a flying eight legged steed named Sleipnir. They are flanked by Odins ravens named Huginn and Muninn.

Odin is the Norse God of wisdom, knowledge, death, and many other things. He is also the husband to the Goddess Frigg.

Odins ravens, Huginn and Muninn are said to fly all around Midgard and then return to Odins shoulder to whisper the news in his ear. Basically a couple of spies.

 

China Kiang - Nan, Ten Cash

 

Pegasus, 1973 Greece 10 drachmai

 

Mercury, 1917 S US 10 cents

 

Okay one more from my Copper round set.

Meet Garmr. The mythical Norse dog or wolf(described as either) that guards the gates to Hell.

 

Jupiter/ stark naked/ holding lightning bolt

AV Aureus ND Cyzicus Mint/ struck 286AD
Diocletian

 

mythological themes.....beasts/ heroes/ Gods/ Goddesses.

 

God Attis
EL Hemihekte (1/12 Stater)
Mysia/ Kyzikos
Struck 475-525BC

 

Poseidon - Greece 20 Drachma, 1930

 

One of my favorite animals: the Hippocamp.



Gallienus (253-268), antoninianus. Obv. Radiate bust right. GALLIENVS AVG. Rev. Hippocamp t.r., NEPTVNO CONS AVG. 18 x 20 cm, 2.33 gr. It looks like this hippocamp has a bundle of lightning in its tail, or is it a ventriloquist's dummy (does it need one?).

By the way, I saw these two marble hippocamps only yesterday in a classicist seaside pavilion built in 1827, it was a birthday present of King William of the Netherlands to his wife. In the middle two dolphins curling around a trident.

 

Kushan Empire
AV Dinara ND Peshawar Mint
Vima Kadphises 117-32AD

Reverse depicts God Shiva

 

@panzerman, do you have a nice gold Kushan Wind God, Oado (or Vado)? My favorite! See my avatar.

 

I am still missing that one

 

Castulo Pegasus

 

AV Aureus ND Rome Mint struck 230AD
Severus Alexander
Emperor as "Romulus" on reverse side.