Here is a lovely obol I bought last Saturday. The reverse is quite fun - the crescent and wolf immediately made me think about werewolves lol. Anyways here is the coin and a little write up Tiny Obol from Lycaonia, Laranda, 324-3 BC Obverse: Baaltars seated left, holding grain ear, grape bunch, and scepter Reverse: Forepart of wolf right, crescent above opening up, spearhead below SNG Lev 225 0.50 g
Great coin @Milo W . Very cool. I have a wolf too: ARGOLIS Argos 490-470 BC AR Triobol 14mm 2.9g Forepart of wolf lying - A 2 incuse sqs pellet crossbar within shallow sq incuse BCD Peloponnesos 1009 R
Very cool lupine coins! I do not have a wolf, but always thought that Pan on this coin sorta resembles a werewolf.
Ooh, yeah! Aooooh! Werewolves of London! That’s actually a welcome earworm to get stuck in my head about now, since it might dislodge this, which has been bouncing around inside my cranium since yesterday…
Thanks. It wasn’t terribly expensive. I used to have no interest in the type, but it eventually “grew on me”, as they say.
This thread makes me realize I need a true “wolf” coin. Trivia: did you know my Native American name is “Running Wolf”? Of course you didn’t. I was given that name as a newborn. Maybe because my first two initials are R.W. I wish I could say it was “official”- that the name was bestowed upon me by an authentic member of some Native American tribe. But no, the family friend who gave it to me was a white fella- a hippie at the time. So I guess nowadays that might be called “cultural appropriation”. Oops. Oh well.
Wait! I just remembered I have this one in with my giveaway goodies. Might not be 2300 years old like the coin in the OP (more like 14 years old- haha). But it is a true wolf coin. Timber Wolf bullion coin.
