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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4136565, member: 110350&quot;]As much as I tend to think the animal on No. III looks more like a goat on most of the examples I&#039;ve seen, Sear argues in Roman Coin Values Vol. III that a common goat would never have been considered sufficiently exotic to be featured in the anniversary games, let alone singled out for an appearance on the coinage. Whereas the Northern European elk, from Scandinavia [= the North American moose rather than what&#039;s known in North America as an elk] would have been perfectly suitable. Perhaps it looks more like a goat on the coins because most of the die-cutters had never actually seen an elk/moose in person, and didn&#039;t really know what it looked like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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