Featured A Now-Extinct Animal on a Roman Coin

Yeah, I'm not sure there. Obverse (?) looks like a dinosaur one of them bigguns brontosaurus or something, lol.
Maybe a bull on reverse.
Where did you find that thing?

 

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Ummm, how 'bout the one legged, one armed big-foot?

=> EID MAR, eat your heart out!!



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Hi guys. I don't understand. The first time that I looked on obverse, I guessed it was a dinosaur with that long turning neck we usually see in famous movies. But then I said to myself: Charles .. don't fool yourself. How did they know at those ancient times that such an animal ever existed ? Anyway.. I need to count on CT masters to reveal the real interpretation of that coin. I still doubt it's a dinosaur. I don't want to believe my eyes. Please forgive my open frankness. Cheers.

 

Fantastic coin, TIF! I immediately went looking for one and came up with this example. Unfortunately, the clipped head is a deal-breaker for me on an otherwise excellent coin.

 

It's not a dinosaur.

 

Lol, I wasn't serious.
But it does kinda look like one.

 

I agree - that was my first thought.

 

Awesome coin @TIF I really need to start looking at more roman provincials.
@7Calbrey That's definitely a dinosaur

 

Amazing OP.. extinct animals from ancient times will never be recreated again.

 

Actually relatively recent extinct organisms might, as DNA manipulation and recovery becomes more capable. Here is a non-scientific article on it, with some photos of very recent extinct animals which are quite interesting. Another decade or so we may see the timeline occasionally be extended with global warming continues to occur and exposing many older sites.

 

It's possible that dragon mythology, which seems to have developed independently in different cultures, could have began with the excavation of dinosaur bones. Ancient peoples would not have understood paleontology and dinosaurs the way we do in modern times, but they would have realized the bones belonged to some enormous beast.

 

Yes the bird on the reverse of the coin is definitely stourthocamilos.

At Xenofondas book ,Kyrou Anavasis kathodos ton myrion,he describes in a chapter how they hunt those birds that there were faster than horses and he informed us that at 400 BC there were plenty of those birds in Greece,Thrace and Persian empire.

So yes it is Stourthocamilos.

 

Welcome @Odysseas

 

this other animal looks possibly like a Carthaginian horse.

 

• have read that the elephants used by the Carthaginians and then the Romans were from an extinct North African race, smaller than the current frican race.

 

Thank you!

Merry Christmas to all.

 

Welcome to CoinTalk, @Odysseas!

 

Thank you.