CNG usually is reliable, of course, but I think they might be wrong in this case. If you have Sear's RCV III, he makes clear that the elephant...
I am unaware of it too, except for the mention in that unusually poor Wikipedia article illustrated with a mosaic or painting of Dionysos with a...
Ordinarily I might agree with you, but not in this case. The problem with your argument is that there's really nothing the animal on my coin...
I like both sides of the second one better. The portrait is much more appealing to me, and the elephant is centered, with a complete reverse legend.
The Philip I elephant coin is actually not part of the 1000th anniversary series: it says AETERNITAS on the reverse, not SAECVLARES AVGG. (I have...
Welcome. I'm not sure what number that is in the exergue of your coin. The IV in that series is the Otcacilia Severa hippo, written as IIII. The...
I especially love the tear you put below Domitian's eye in the second one. After all, he was almost as cultured as Nero.
If I lived in England or the Continent, in a place where metal detecting is legal, I'd want to try it too. I'm always envious when I read about...
12-hour rule. (I'm surprised nobody posted the Disney character. Or the planet, or whatever they're calling it these days.) Changing the...
I see your point, but whatever the Greeks and Romans may have called the animals depicted on particular coins -- which we don't really know, after...
Is it also from Nicopolis?
Here is the etymology section from the "leopard" article in Wikipedia: Etymology The English name 'leopard' comes from Old French: leupart or...
Were there separate words for "panther" and "leopard" in ancient Greek or Latin? Whether there were or not, it seems kind of senseless to me that...
Thanks. In my first post in this thread, I posted a link to this mosaic and to another one at the same website, also showing Dionysos riding a...
A different question: on the reverse of my coin, what is that supposed to be at the end of the thyrsos? It sure doesn't look like a pine cone to...
Thanks. I think there are spots on that "panther," although they're not that easy to see. It appears that there are more "spotted panthers" on...
I think your coin looks more like a leopard like a lion. They probably still had lions in the area of Macedon back then, and I think they knew...
Here's a Vibius Varus with the spots showing more clearly, even though they look more like some kind of horrible skin disease!:...
Thanks so much! These are great, and I'm pretty sure they do all have spots. I especially like that Geta coin. Expensive! I see that the cng...
In the second coin from the bottom, Gordian looks rather demented! It's the eyes, I think.
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