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ASIA MINOR Uncertain mint AR Tetartemorion Lion - Incuse 5mm 0.13g



LYCIA Dynast Perikles 380-360 BCE AR 1-3 Stater 20x14mm 2.8g Facing lion's scalp Triskeles BMC 157



Akkadian 2350-2200 BCE Cylinder Seal Buff stone scene hero wresting antelope winged lion Ex J Tabot with SCENE



Ionia Miletos AR Tetartemorion 5.6mm 0.21g Roaring Lion Hd - Bird Klein 430 SNG Kay 941



Carthage LIBYAN UPRISING Mercenary War 241-238 BCE 7.36g AR DiShekel Herakles Head in Lion's Head- Lion walking R SNG Cop 240f



RImp Marc Antony 43 BCE AR Quinarius 13mm 1.67g Lugdunum Winged bust Victory-probly Fulvia Lion DVNI LVGV Cr 489-5 Syd 1160



Thrace Lysimachus AE 14 306 BC Apollo forepart of Lion



Iona-Miletos Late6thC fine lion

 

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Always impressed by your artistry and coins DR! Great thread idea. Here’s some Greek lions:

 

Wonderful scorpion!

 

I will add some lions from India....
AV Fanam ND
Rajas of Thanjuvar/ Raja Sarabjahi I 1712-29
8mm. 0.39g.
Lion depicted with a peacock head

AV Pagoda ND
Kadambas of Hangal
Toyimedeva 1048-75
20mm. 4.30g.

 

Bert Lahr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Lahr

 

Good idea! Here is a Babylonian stater.

 

Nice coins everyone.

Here are some of my lions in chronological order:


Thrace, Chersonesos, AR hemidrachm, ca. 386–338 BC. Obv: forepart of lion r., head reverted. Rev: four-part incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; HP-monogram and pellet in upper sunken quarter, pellet in lower sunken quarter. 13mm, 2.4g; SNG Copenhagen 828 var (pellet instead of leaf on reverse).


Dynasts of Lycia, Perikles, AR 1/3 stater, ca. 380–360 BC: Obv: Lion scalp facing. Rev: PERIKLE in Lycian script; triskele. 14mm, 2.76g. Ref: SNG von Aulock 4254–5.


Septimius Severus, Roman Empire, AR denarius, 202–210 AD, Rome mint. Obv: SEVERVS PIVS AVG; head of Septimius Severus, laureate, r. Rev: INDVLGENTIA AVGG IN CARTH; Dea Caelestis, draped, riding r. on lion, holding thunderbolt in r. hand and sceptre in l. hand; below, water gushing from rock. 19mm, 3.32g. Ref: RIC IV Septimius Severus 266. Ex Marc Breitsprecher; ex Secret Saturn 2019.


Norman Kingdom of Sicily, under William II "the Good," AE trifollaro, 1166–1189 AD, Messina mint. Obv: lion's head facing. Rev: palm tree. 26mm, 10.27g. Ref: Spahr 117; Biaggi 1231.


City of Braunschweig, AR "Ewiger Pfennig" (bracteate), after 1412 AD. Obv: lion walking l. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 21 mm, 0.45g. Ref: Berger 993–1001.


Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Gosdantin III or IV, AR Takvorin, 1344–1373 AD, Sis or Tarsus mint. Reverse: Armenian legend, king riding r., holding lily sceptre. Rev: Armenian legend, lion with cross walking r. 23mm, 1.97g. Ref: Nercessian 471–478; 491–496. Overstruck.

 

Finally got one in a Frank Robinson auction...little off center, but still I love it!

 

Perhaps this is cheating a little bit, but you did say lions! So here are two more I have, both from Egypt and both depicting Sekhmet -- one of limestone, from the 22nd-23rd Dynasties, and one of blue faience, from the 26th Dynasty.

 

I forgot this Samos tetrobol with its lion scalp - with piercing looks though vanquished.



Ionia, Islands off. Samos. Circa 210-190 BC. AR Tetrobol. Obv. Facing lion’s scalp. Rev. Forepart of bull butting right; amphora, monogram TAT, and barley ear below. Text above: ΣAMIΩN. 16 mm, 3.01 gr. Barron p. 147, type j, cf. nr. 27.

 

It is getting hard to find one someone has not posted before but my favorite lions are still available.
Aurelian - I have no idea what the meaning of the lion in exergue was but he is well done.


Of course Leo I had to have a lion on his AE4.


I like this Gallienus but wonder why the lion was so small.

 

Seleucid kitty


SELEUKID EMPIRE. Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 15.89 g, 11h). Ba’al seated left, holding scepter / Lion walking left; anchor above. SC 88.2a; HGC 9, 67a. Area of weak strike, some porosity. VF. Babylon mint.

 

Love the new graphic and really, really like that Azes II

Here are the only two lions in the Ark:

Ionia, Miletus


Bruttium, Rhegion

 

.......i didnt know there was a lion on this Greek Cheronese hemi for many years...(excuse the old pic)

 

And some Eastern lions.



Indo-Scythian Kingdom, Azes II (c. 35-12 BC) hexachalkon. Obv. Lion standing right, monogram above, Kharoshthi text around, probably saying 'Of Azes, the great King of Kings'. Rev. Bull walking right, monogram above, Greek text around Basileoos basileoon megalou/ Azou. 28.5 mm, 14.16 gr.


AE Vardanzi, Soghdia (Central Asia, Silk Road), around 700 AD. Obv. Lion left. Rev. Nestorian cross. 15 mm, 0.64 gr. Zeno 49952. Sought after because of its possible Christian connotations, deep in Asia.



AE fals Qarakhanids, Quz Ordu, 413 AH = 1022 AD. Arslan-khan Mansur b. ‘Ali. Rev. Lion in gracious expressivity, its head turning around. 26 mm, 3.35 gr. Kochnev 592 a. Zeno 66574.



Late Medieval Islamic pul, but somehow I have no other data.

 

My favorite lion is the one of Hekatomnos

 

LUCANIA, VELIA (c. 300-280) Stater, 7.39 g - 21.5 mm
Head of Athena, wearing Attic helmet decorated with wing - Φ K I
Lion walking left - Φ I Triskeles - YEΛHTΩN

 

Alwin's post reminded me of Velia staters with their assortment of lions.
Eating meat on ground


hunting


another but this is a fourree


It strikes me that we see more worn Velia staters than many larger silver coins and this tends to make them available at lower prices than some cities with less interesting types. Of course, if you must have them in highest grades, they are not cheap. Alwin's coin is exceptional.