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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2225306, member: 42773&quot;]I wish I had any foxes to post, but in my hunting I came across this very interesting coin, Ionia or Lydia, uncertain mint. <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=163600" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=163600" rel="nofollow">Nomos 2 Lot 112</a>...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]436676[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>CNG described the obverse of this coin as a wolf eating a bunch of grapes, but it looks more like a fox to me. They added this very interesting analysis to boot...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;While naturalistic, this depiction is surely taken from some local myth, such as the famous tale of the fox and the grapes by Aesop. The fact that Aesop actually came from the area of Asia Minor where this coin was presumably struck (Aesop is closely connected with both Samos and Lydia), and that he lived from the late 7th through the mid 6th century (possibly circa 620-564), makes it very likely that there is a connection between this coin and the cultural milieu that gave rise to Aesop’s fables.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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