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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1923907, member: 19463&quot;]Not Dianae, not right and not looking backwards.&nbsp; There are many variations.</p><p>This page has the coin you describe (first under &#039;Doe&#039;)</p><p><a href="http://www.lunalucifera.com/Zoo/diana.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lunalucifera.com/Zoo/diana.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lunalucifera.com/Zoo/diana.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe yours in on the Jupiter page under &#039;goat left&#039;.&nbsp; It seems to be an $8 coin.&nbsp; For twice that you might get better surfaces but yours is far better than most when it comes to legends and strike details.&nbsp; JA&#039;s coin also strikes me as right for $3 since the headless goat is not in high demand.&nbsp; &nbsp; IMHO really nice zoo coins are $30-$50 items and the difference between average and special is quite a bit.&nbsp; There is also the question whether you should expect to pay more for special species as compared to deer/goat grade beasts.&nbsp; The god named will always help ID the beast.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are many more not shown yet so who has the others to share?&nbsp; Many occur both right and left and with heads or busts so a complete set is a lot of coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Jupiter goat [ATTACH=full]330742[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Diana stag</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330739[/ATTACH]</p><p>Liber panther</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330745[/ATTACH]</p><p>Neptune hippocamp</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330743[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Apollo gryphon</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330741[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The question is whether we should count the wolf.&nbsp; Technically it is not a zoo series since it does not name a god but reads Aeternitas Avg. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]330744[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I posted mine in what I considered price order low to high.&nbsp; The position of the wolf depends on whether you add points for the left portrait.&nbsp; The link below has a great chart on relative rarity that explains why most of you have never seen a Hercules or Mercury.&nbsp; I have neither in my collection for sure!</p><p><a href="http://www.lunalucifera.com/Zoo/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lunalucifera.com/Zoo/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lunalucifera.com/Zoo/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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