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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 6448200, member: 74834"]And here are some other horses from the Ancients stable. This work horse coin I showed before, as atmospheric as it is, minted somewhere along the Silk Route, where tired old horses must have plodded on for many miles, not ridden triumphantly under a great prince, but driven on, loaded with riches for humans in Eastern or in Western Empires. Trudging under the moon...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256430[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sogdia. AE from the Chach oasis (= Tashkent), Kabarna, 7th century. Obv. Horse trudges to the right under crescent moon with dot. Rev. Tamgha nr. 2 (hook flower). 18 mm, 1.86 gr. Shagalov & Kuznetsov 74-76, group 2 nr. 8 (version 1, the heavier variety).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256439[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my lovely Iceni coin with its jolly jumping horse, and on the obverse a man smelling the mouth of a snake (???) or whatever he thinks he's doing (with his pig's snout ear!).</p><p><br /></p><p>British Celtic coinage. Iceni (who were living in what's now Norfolk, UK). Uninscribed AR unit, quinar size<i>. </i>Circa 50-40 BC. Bury Diadem type ("Gallo-Belgic XD") type. Uncertain mint in the upper Yare valley. Obv. Diademed head left; snake symbol to left. Rev. Horse leaping left; pellet in ring of pellets above, pellet-in-annulets around. 15 mm, 1.47 gr, 6h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256446[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And number three is a very different piece of cake: developed from a developed from a developed from a developed from a tetradrachm of Philip II of Macedon. A Celtic coin from the East (Northern Carpathia = rough Romania I suppose). As you may observe, a bearded laureated god-king's head to the right on the convex obverse, and a fat duck-billed horse to the left on the hollow other side. </p><p><br /></p><p>Eastern Celts, mint in the Northern Carpathian region, 2nd century BC. Scyphate AR (no, billon) tetradrachm. Obv. Vague round Zeus head to the right. Rev. Horse to the left, no rider, ‘Entenschnabel’ = duck bill face. 23 mm, 8.88 gr. Lanz 666-8.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought coins like these also belong in a thread about horses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 6448200, member: 74834"]And here are some other horses from the Ancients stable. This work horse coin I showed before, as atmospheric as it is, minted somewhere along the Silk Route, where tired old horses must have plodded on for many miles, not ridden triumphantly under a great prince, but driven on, loaded with riches for humans in Eastern or in Western Empires. Trudging under the moon... [ATTACH=full]1256430[/ATTACH] Sogdia. AE from the Chach oasis (= Tashkent), Kabarna, 7th century. Obv. Horse trudges to the right under crescent moon with dot. Rev. Tamgha nr. 2 (hook flower). 18 mm, 1.86 gr. Shagalov & Kuznetsov 74-76, group 2 nr. 8 (version 1, the heavier variety). [ATTACH=full]1256439[/ATTACH] This is my lovely Iceni coin with its jolly jumping horse, and on the obverse a man smelling the mouth of a snake (???) or whatever he thinks he's doing (with his pig's snout ear!). British Celtic coinage. Iceni (who were living in what's now Norfolk, UK). Uninscribed AR unit, quinar size[I]. [/I]Circa 50-40 BC. Bury Diadem type ("Gallo-Belgic XD") type. Uncertain mint in the upper Yare valley. Obv. Diademed head left; snake symbol to left. Rev. Horse leaping left; pellet in ring of pellets above, pellet-in-annulets around. 15 mm, 1.47 gr, 6h. [ATTACH=full]1256446[/ATTACH] And number three is a very different piece of cake: developed from a developed from a developed from a developed from a tetradrachm of Philip II of Macedon. A Celtic coin from the East (Northern Carpathia = rough Romania I suppose). As you may observe, a bearded laureated god-king's head to the right on the convex obverse, and a fat duck-billed horse to the left on the hollow other side. Eastern Celts, mint in the Northern Carpathian region, 2nd century BC. Scyphate AR (no, billon) tetradrachm. Obv. Vague round Zeus head to the right. Rev. Horse to the left, no rider, ‘Entenschnabel’ = duck bill face. 23 mm, 8.88 gr. Lanz 666-8. I thought coins like these also belong in a thread about horses.[/QUOTE]
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