odd article https://www.sciencealert.com/scient...il&utm_term=0_fe5632fb09-6c60da7752-365978301 POST YOUR RHINOS ! Roman Provincial Trajan Egypt AE Dichalkon Laureate hd L Rhinoceros walking L LI-Z yr 17 CE 113-114 12.9mm 1.25g Emmet 719 var. rhino right POST YOUR RHINOS !
Nice rhino and great emperor! Here's my rhino, that looks more like a sloth, from an emperor who was a sloth! Domitian (81-96). Æ Quadrans (15mm, 1.88g, 6h). Rome, 84-5. Large SC surrounded by legend. R/ Rhinoceros walking l. RIC II 250. Good Fine Bertolami Jan 2021
I would very much like to have a Trajan rhino like yours, @Alegandron.. The ones I've seen have been pretty rough-looking. I've posted my one rhino coin before, but here it is again. (It took a while to find one that actually had a visible horn, and didn't just look like a boar or a tapir or a sloth, as @Ryro points out.) Domitian (son of Vespasian), AE Quadrans [1/4 As] 84-85 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. African Rhinoceros with two horns advancing right with head down/ Rev IMP DOMIT AVG GERM (clockwise around starting at 1:00), S C across. RIC II-1 Domitian 249 (2007 ed.), Sear RCV II 2834, Cohen 673. (Legend starting at 1:00 rather than 7:00 is rarer variety, with only 4 examples at OCRE -- none at British Museum; see http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).dom.249 -- and 8 at acsearch.) 16.5 mm., 2.56 g. [Issued after Domitian’s assumption of Germanicus title in late 83 AD, but before the Consular date XI was added to his quadrantes in 85. It was possibly distributed as a token and/or souvenir to the crowds at the Colosseum, which Domitian completed in 82 by adding its uppermost story. See Martial’s Liber De Spectaculis (http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_on_the_games_of_domitian_01_text.htm) re exhibition of rhinoceros at Colosseum, and re practice of distributing tokens to crowd. See also T.V. Buttrey, “Domitian, the Rhinoceros, and the Date of Martial's ‘Liber De Spectaculis,’" The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 97 (2007), pp. 101-112, at https://www.jstor.org/stable/20430573?seq=1.]
Wow. Ain’t got no rhinos, and never have- not even on a modern coin. That one’s great, and the earthen patina really sets it off nicely, as if the rhino itself wasn’t enough. (it doesn’t very upside-down, though.)
