A Horse Coin

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1937 Double sovereign

 

Two Roman coins with bigas -

 

@lordmarcovan your collection deserves a museum ^^
@1934 Wreath Crown the reverse of the 1937 (killing the dragon theme?) is gorgeous

 

Fantastic stuff.

Where's the Stone Mountain and that big Regina hunt jump piece? Mine are put away and I always wondered why the amazing horsemanship of Native Americans, witnessed and written about by many, has never been on a coin as far as I know.

Some witnesses to it never witnessed anything again. I wonder if the outcome would have been much different had they been with black powder and iron at the beginning of the invasion.

 

1935 Proof Crown (Raised edge)

 

Horses.....
Octavian Denarius

 

Two horses on this denarius from 147 BC.



And a horse and a dragon on this crown from 1887.



Seller photos.

 

From my Westphalian set

 

This may be my favorite "horse" coin. It was minted in Entella Sicily which was a territory of Carthage. The Romans had a real problem with Carthage and wars were fought. When the Romans defeated Carthage, they basically destroyed everything of Carthage including many of these coins. It is said that they salted the ground so that nothing would ever grow there again..... This coin remains.

SICULO PUNIC,
SICILY, Entella.
AR Tetradrachm.
300-289 B.C.
16.72 grams, 23 mm
Obv: Head of Hercules rt. in lion skin
Rev: Horse head left with date palm tree behind & MHSBM in exergue
[Mint of the Quaestors] series 5b
Grade: aEF nice detail centered & toned. Only MHSBM in exergue is weak.
Other: Carthaginian mercenary coin ☺
Sim. Sear 6438, SNG.Cop.91, Jen
From Pegasi Numismatics 4/2013

 

Click on the picture below to see my set (currently 270 horse themed coins/medals/tokens).

 

Here are two coins that I added in 2016, both relatively difficult to find in MS. The 1929 Czech coin is among my favorite in my set. Both of these took more than 5 years to find in a quality that I wanted.

 

Hello Brg5658,

Do you have a CELTIC, Rhineland - Central Europe "Dancing Mannikin" horse coin? They were minted 65 BC - AD 1 and are really cool. TIF has a nice one shown in post #16 of this thread: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/please-post-celtics.297585/#post-2760787

 

I have largely stayed away from ancients. There are hundreds (probably thousands) of ancient coins with horses -- I'd have to learn a lot before diving into that side of the pool.

 

A really small one from the Kingdom of
Hannover

 

Elizabeth II, silver jubilee 25 pence, 1977 - cupronickel

Q

 

Oh, and


George IIII, crown 1821 - silver

Q

 

1/2 Dinar Libya 2009 [1377 from the passing away of the prophet (peace be upon him)]; British Royal Mint.
Note: the right hand sided date is not a hijri date. For some reason, Ghaddafi had decided to set the date from the passing away (and not from the hijra; migration) of prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

Literal translation of wafat وفاة is death. this is what is written on the coin.
In Islam, "some scholars" (my guessing more would be in Sufism) would avoid using the word death to ascribe it to the prophet's. It is mostly a matter of decency. There is no solid evidence that using the word "death" as an attribute to the prophet's, is haram. There are also another way of describing the passing away of the prophet, " has ascended to the Higher Companion".

 

elegant piece. I like themes of horse ride. Pride

 

Some of my best friends are quarter horses.