"Follow The Leader" coin thread BY THEME (for ALL types of coins, tokens, and medals)

It's in my "Eclectic Box". See link in signature line.

Long story short, it's a Seljuk (or Seljuq) dirham from the 13th century (AH 638/1240-1241 AD). From a region that is now part of modern Turkey. The lion on it is a rare animal representation for an Islamic coin.

 

It's interesting how seamlessly the center ring of that bimetallic Czech coin "blends" on one side. On the reverse (city) side, you can barely see the seam between the center and outer ring at all, and even the colors seem to have blended in places, whereas the seam is much more apparent on the obverse (lion) side.

 

@Stork- What a breathtaking addition! Perfect tie-in, to show the ancient inspiration for your Albanian coin's design. Zog's infatuation with Classical art no doubt had much to do with the beauty of his coins!

That interesting helmet design on Athena on your coin appears to be the same as on my Taras, Calabria drachm. According to the description on my coin which FORVM provided, it represents Skylla hurling a stone. She is depicted in various sea-monstery guises in mythology, and appears to have a crab claw on your coin!

(Below is a comparison with @Stork's coin- disregard for game purposes and continue with "Lions" theme.)

 

I want one of those.

And one of the hexagonal Belgian Congo pieces with the elephant.

 

I like it. I believe that is what is referred to as "anepigraphic" by ancient coin peeps. (i.e., without a legend.)

Much like the United States 1837-38 "no stars" Seated Liberty dimes and half-dimes. Those did have the date on the obverse, but nothing else surrounding Lady Liberty. It was a nice, uncluttered look by comparison with the later "stars obverse" types.

 

Crowns.



Played that earlier, so here's something else with multiple crowns.