Ancients => HOOF, there it is!!

=> anybody game? ... which one of the 32 horse coins that I've posted is the winner?

I already know my favourite ... it's certainly not the most expensive, but there has always been something about the coin that I love (maybe everything?)




=> Ummm, which of my horse coins is "YOUR" favourite ("favorite" for the US folks)

 

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Your favorite is definitely in my top 3 but my #1 pick is your Taras nomos.



Rounding out the top 3:

 

You know I am going to have to agree with TIF on this one.

 

Huh... TIF's choices were my picks too.

 

I have to agree with Steve, this one is my favorite.

 

ESUP RASV stater of the Corieltauvii

 

My favorite cartoon horse:


CELTIC, Central Europe (Rhineland). "Dancing Mannikin" type
65 BCE - CE 1
AR Quinarius, 13 mm, 1.62 gm
Obv: dancing mannikin right, head turned left, holding snake in right hand, torque in left hand.
Rev: horse standing right, head turned left; around, zig zag border.
Ref: SLM 1118. Dembski 73, 396

 

Total WINNER Steve!!! Love the posts, and my favorites seem to be the same as the TIF etc....
My best and by default my 'favorite'---- Bronze of Gallienus, Troas:

(It seems I have just been seriously out bid on a RR 'horsehead' Litra I really liked A LOT):

 

VALERIAN I
AE20
OBVERSE: IMP LICI VALERIAN, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: VCOL AVG TRO, horse grazing right
Struck at Alexandria Troas, 253-60 AD
4.86g, 21mm
SNGCop 191v

 

man, i don't have many coins that feature a horse that isn't being ridden or hooked up to a chariot of some sort. here's my best, and it's rough...

 

Well, as we seem to be piling on horses, let's do a "today's special gran Slam" with my all times favorite horse. Sorry the text is in french, I'm a bit lazy, just back from Rome, to translate it. The main thing you have to know is that's a fricken nice and rare coin (that's most probably the 6th known example to date)


Franc à cheval, or - sans date -
Atelier de Trévoux
+IONES*DVX*BORBONII*TREVOBCII׃NS. Buste cuirassé du Prince à gauche, portant le collier de l'ordre de St Michel.
DEXTER A*D NI.*EXAL TAVIT*MEA Le Prince casqué et cuirassé à cheval, brandissant une épée et passant à droite. La housse est semée de lis, accompagnée de la brisure (les armes de la maison de Bourbon).
3,44g - 22 mm
Ref : Divo Dombes # 1 (5 exemplaires décrits), Mantellier -, Poey d’Avant -, Caron # 544, Friedberg # 119

Jean II, Duc de Bourbon et d'Auvergne, seigneur de Trévoux a été le premier des souverains de Dombes à battre monnaie de façon certaine. Son monnayage de billon copie assez servilement celui des rois de France. En revanche son monnayage d'or, rarissime, est inspiré des ducats d'or de François Ier Sforza, Duc de Milan. C'est la première monnaie "française" portant une effigie réaliste du souverain régnant. Il est assuré que c'est bien Jean II et non pas son prédécesseur Jean Ier qui a frappé ce franc à cheval, car le portrait est orné du collier de l'ordre de St Michel créé en 1469 et dont jean II fut de la première promotion. Le royaume de France ne battra de monnaies à l'effigie du souverain, en argent, qu'un demi siècle plus tard pendant le règne de Louis XII.

Q

 

naaaayyy => sweet horse, Q