Post your favorite Horse

No wonder. That's one very beautiful coin, and beautifully-preserved.

Interesting fact: horses don't gallop like that. They just didn't know that back then, because they didn't have photography back then. But you see this "gait" all the time in art, before the discovery of photography. Just FYI...thought you might find it interesting.

 

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Oh Wilburrrrrr...

 

Oh what the heck, I'm in the mood...

Here's a commemorative one...

 

I don't have any depictions of horses on american coins. However, here is an equestrian theme on a Roman Sestertius. This coin, minted in Rome around 120 ad, shows Emperor Hadrianus mounted, greeting his troops during one of his many military expedtions. This one shows the campaign in what is today Syria i believe.
Notice how small the horse seems compared with the rider. This is not an engraver's mistake. Roman horses were smaller than present day horses.

 

Eddie loves his horses and it shows:mouth:

 

wall here is the one i want from mexico

 

what's that one? I can't see it too well.

 

What I don't get is the way there's so much space available to enlarge the head if they wanted to- St. George's cloak goes much closer to the lettering, so it doesn't seem to be a technical consideration..

 

That's what that one looks like. My wife snagged it when my mother was going thru coins that my step father had picked up when he was alive. It almost got tossed as junk since it is so dark. I did find a picture of it, wish mine looked like that.

eddiespin - nice registered coin, wonder what else they grade...wonder if they would grade some that placed third at Belmont yesterday....


Smaugy

 

Okay Lehigh, if you are in the poker room you can see that my poker face is beginning to turn red because I just can't hold in this reply to your 'post your favorite horse' any longer.
Here it goes...
My grand daughter can 'post' any of the horses in the stables just fine. Me, on the other hand, I cannot even 'post' a poster of a horse on the wall without it being out of whack.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
jeankay

 

Here are 3 more horse coins that I got recently.

 

One of my favorite Horses....

RickieB

 

Those horse bums are shiny!