A coins with an eagles.

Eagle is very nice and noble bird. Many countries has used an image of eagles as an element of coin's design. I have an idea: to make a presentation of a world coins with a pictures of eagle.
Certainly, you may post yor coins too

 

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Eagle was very popular in Prussia. It is the one of the main elements of their coins.

 

A greek bronze of mine.


KINGS of MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 BC.
Pella or Amphipolis mint
O: Helmeted head of the hero Perseus right; harpa to right.
R: Eagle standing left, head right, on thunderbolt : B A P E around
6.9g
21mm

 

Leopold I (1658-1705)
1 Kreuzer, 1700, Vienna Mint
O: LEOPOLDVS . D . G . R . I . S .-. A . G . H . B . REX
Laureate, draped bust right breaking inner laurel circle, denomination in oval below.
R:ARCHID . AVS-DVX . B . CO . TYR .
Double eagle with Vienna arms on breast, within linear circle, crown above.
Rolled flan
0.6gm

 

Leopold I (1657-1705)
15 Kreuzer
1664, Neuburg am Inn mint
Mint master Bartholomaus Triangel
O: laureate, draped bust right wearing Order.
R: Crowned Imperial Eagle, Arms on breast.
(Her.1029, KM 1220.2), only year of issue.

 

Duchy of Silesia.
It was the Prussian possession. But Silesia has own coins at the same time. Certainly, they used a picture of eagle too.

 

Alexander The Great, Macedonian Kingdom, (336 - 323 B.C.)
AR Drachm
Posthumous
O: Herakles' head right, clad in Nemean lion scalp headdress tied at neck.
R: ΑΛΕΞΑΝ∆ΡΟΥ, Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, eagle in right, long vertical scepter in left, X within Ω left, KH under throne.
Mylasa mint 310-300 B.C.
4.1g
16mm
Price 2480

 

Duchy of Upper Lorraine.
The eagle with the crown on its neck is a distinctive sign of a Lorraine's coins. This coin was minted at 1622.

 

French Eagle of Napoleon III the Emperor.

 

Well since the US is a part of the world, here is my contribution...hope no one minds!

 

Austrian two-headed eagle. It's a thaler of Franz I the Emperor.

 

Two-headed Eagle of my Motherland. 5 koprks of Catherine II the Great. Very big coin (weight - about 60 g.)

 

Finnish two-headed eagle.

 

Two-headed eagle of the Kingdom of Serbia.

 

Eagle from the Free City of Frankfurt.

 

Two-headed eagle from Albania. The period of the Italian occupation.

 

Small one-headed eagle on the coin of Vatican. 2 lire 1935. It's an element of arms.

 

Two-headed eagle from the Kingdom of Greece.

 

A strange eagle from Iceland.

 

Spain.
Eagle as the main element of the arms during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.