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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4175412, member: 110350&quot;]My new SAECVLARES AVGG coin:&nbsp; the Philip II ant with a Northern European elk [= American moose] on the reverse.&nbsp; (I don&#039;t care how much it looks like a goat; Sear has convinced me, in the passage I mentioned above, that it would have made no sense whatsoever to put a goat on one of the coins issued for this occasion.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip II, Caesar AR Antoninianus, 248 AD, Rome Mint, 3rd Officina. Obv. Radiate, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right, IMP PHILIPVS AVG/ Rev. European elk [moose] standing left, SAECVLARES AVGG, III in exergue. RIC IV-3 224, RSC IV 72, Sear RCV III 9273. 22 mm., 4.33 g., 12 h. (<i>Games commemorating 1,000th&nbsp; anniversary of founding of Rome</i>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1074826[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the animal&#039;s body and head shape actually look more like a moose&#039;s than a goat&#039;s.&nbsp; This example for sale by Marc Breitsprecher was even more obviously intended to be a European elk/American moose, not a goat:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/marc_breitsprecher_classical_numismatist/8/product/philip_ii_ar_antoninianus__goat_left/894886/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/marc_breitsprecher_classical_numismatist/8/product/philip_ii_ar_antoninianus__goat_left/894886/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/marc_breitsprecher_classical_numismatist/8/product/philip_ii_ar_antoninianus__goat_left/894886/Default.aspx</a>. (I was tempted to buy it, but it was a little too expensive for me.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s my one Gallienus coin with an animal reverse, which I haven&#039;t posted before, but will post here instead of starting yet another new zoo thread:</p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, Rome Mint 267-268 AD. Obv. Radiate head right, GALLIENVS AVG /Rev. Panther walking left, LIBERO P CONS AVG; B or D in exergue. RIC V-1 230, RSC IV 586, Sear RCV III 10281. 19mm, 2.83g, 6h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1074829[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Wildwinds lists this coin as two separate types under the same RIC, RSC, and RCV catalog numbers -- one with a panther and one with a tigress -- but from the examples I&#039;ve seen, I believe they&#039;re all the same type.&nbsp; I think most of them are simply too worn to see any stripes that might be there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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