Coin Look-alikes

I was browsing coin pics online and happened to find an image of an ancient coin that caught my attention. The scene looks a lot like that on a modern coin I knew of. I don't own so I wrote the website where I found it below the coin pic.

Any other coin look-alikes? Could be any modern-ancient, modern-modern, ancient-ancient.

 

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What is the coin on the left? I would like to obtain one.

 

roma always reminds me of britania when I see this reverse..

 

it's from Italy TIF..not my coin...



Italy has some really pretty coin from the early 20th century.

 

Thanks, chrsmat! Perhaps I'll look for one on Vcoins.

Guess it makes sense that the modern coin is from Italy, given that the ancient one is from Sicily...

 

Emperor Hadrian and Emperor Franz Joseph. Both sporting manly beards...What do you think?

 

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Anaxilas. AR Litra
circa 494-461 BC



1967 Canadian Nickel

 

Ummm, is this close enough?

Duke of Lorraine, Charles IV, AR Gros
1661-1670 AD



1948 canadian 50 cent Piece

 

The Italian 1000 lire coin issued in 1970 (to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rome as the Italian capital) shows Concordia from a Roman denarius:



Many modern Greek coins also refer to ancient designs. Such as Pegasos (from a Corinthian stater) or a bull (from a Sybaris stater) on pieces from the early/mid 1970s. And the owl from an ancient Athenian tetradrachm coin not only re-appeared in those years but can also be found on the current €1 piece ...

Christian

 

USSR: one rouble.
Mongolia: one tugrug.

 

It's thought that Roman coins with temple reverses were the inspiration for the later temple-type Carolingian coinage of the Middle Ages, with a cross in the center of the temple instead of a pagan Roman deity:

 

This is a pretty exact pose. Note the right legend is even the same but the dates replaced the name of the moneyer at the left.

 

Here is a modern Mali coin & an ancient Carthaginian coin. They might remind you of a scene in the Godfather I movie.



Coincidentally, both the Godfather & the Carthaginian coin are from Sicily.

 

5 cents 1966, Uganda.
5 cents 1964, East Africa.

 

Three mark 1910, Baden.
Three mark 1909, Hamburg.

 

Ah, but in these cases the "lookalike" effect is due to the fact that those pieces all had a common (eagle) side. Grand Duke Friedrich does not really look like a Hamburg lion.

Christian

 

Most German states had this coat of arms, if not all of them did.

 

Poland put the design from a coin onto a modern coin.

 

LESBOS, Mytilene. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater
Circa 478-455 BC




2014 Canadian 25 cent Piece (AU Specimen)

 

This was my poor Man's owl...till i got a real one...