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

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  1. MontCollector

    MontCollector Well-Known Member

    Here is an Off Center OCLMC.jpg
    Back to Worn Coins next 1874GB.jpg

    There is just enough details to tell this is a GB Large Penny and the date can barely be seen. Does that make this a low ball or is that just a US coin thing?
     
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  3. Stork

    Stork I deliver

    A worn one, I bought it as a lark on eBay as it's in a FR-02 slab :)

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    How about a trident next:
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  4. Steve66

    Steve66 Coin People

    Trident
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  5. Steve66

    Steve66 Coin People

    Ok Trident
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    Next: Crocs or gators
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  6. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    This is an ancient coin depicting Augustus & Agrippa on the obverse. The reverse depicts a crocodile chained to a palm tree. The crocodile symbolizes Egypt.
    Augustus Agrippa Crocodile Collage BK.jpg

    Next theme is palm trees
     
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  7. alurid

    alurid Well-Known Member

    My Bad.
     
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  8. Steve66

    Steve66 Coin People

    your on the wrong page @alurid :D
     
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  9. alurid

    alurid Well-Known Member

    Yeah I am. Sorry bout that. Palm Trees DSC06069.JPG DSC06070.JPG DSC06091.JPG DSC06092.JPG
    A Camel next
     
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  10. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    Sudan 1956 10 Ghirsh (Camel & rider)
    Sudan 1956 10 Ghirsh 2.jpg

    Septimus Severus denarius (Elephant)
    Elephant Septimus Collage.jpg
     
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  11. Stork

    Stork I deliver

    Elephant

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    a Feline
     
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  12. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    This is one of my favorite cats. The nice lady is offering the kitty a bowl of milk.
    Copy of IMG_0911.jpg Copy of IMG_0915.jpg

    Now the theme is coins with Roman numerals
     
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  13. Curtisimo

    Curtisimo the Great(ish)

    Roman Numerals
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    New theme: Bust facing
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  14. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    Gorgon facing
    Gorgon Anchor Collage.jpg

    The new theme is crustaceans
     
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  15. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Call it what you like. It could be a lowball. Me, personally, I call those "Slick Vickies", and even had a "Slick Vickie Contest" on Collectors Universe, once. The cool thing about the halfpennies and pennies of that era is that the exergue where the date is got protected from wear so it's one of the last features to go. A coin can be FR02 or even PO01 and still have a readable date!

    You should use that one to start a "Slick Vickie" thread over here. ;)

    The little lozenge/diamond/square pattern on that elephant's side is fascinating. I've never seen that before. Do you suppose it portrays some kind of padded or armored suit they would have put on a war elephant?

    That nice "lady" is rather androgynous, and looks more like a young classical Greek male athlete to me than a lady, but I suppose it could also be a rather flat-chested, mannish-looking lass.

    Hard to say, since you can't see his or her ... *ahem* ... equipment. (Thankfully.)
     
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  16. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    So... where were we?

    Ah, yes. Crustaceans.

    Sicily, Akragas: silver hemidrachm, ca. 410-406 BC

    Obverse- eagle right, clutching dead hare in its talons, barley grain behind.
    Reverse- Crab, with ketos below, swimming left with fish in its jaws.

    16 mm, 1.8 g. SNG ANS 1012.    ​

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    New theme, based on the ketos (sea monster) seen on this same coin:

    Let's have mythical monsters next. Extra credit for sea monsters.
     
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  17. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    I'm not going for the extra credit because I want to share this weird mythical beast.
    Sikyon Stater Collage.jpg
    SIKYONIA, Sikyon
    AR Stater
    335-330 BC

    The chimera on the obverse is basically a lion with an extra goat's head and a snake tail.

    The next theme is coins with a flying bird (dove for extra credit :)).
     
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  18. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    @Collect89 - that Sikyon stater is awesome.

    I remember @AncientJoe posting his incredible example with its "glowing" chimera over on Collectors Universe. If he posts an ancient, you automatically know it will be an absolute stunner, but yours is the nicest example I've seen since.

    No doves here, I'm afraid. How 'bout some geese?

    So that's flying birds ... by the dozen!

    (Got this one from @Stork, speaking of birds.)

    Canada: gold 100-dollars proof of Elizabeth II, Canadian Unity commemorative, 1978
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    Let's do colorful toning, next.

    France: silver jeton of Louis XV, "Aurora in cloud chariot", undated (ca. 1740)
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  19. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    1955 PS 50 cent obv.jpg 1955 PS 50 cent rev.jpg
    This Franklin half dollar is in a five coin NGC holder. All the coins have similar toning.
    1955 proof set Slab Obv and Rev.jpg
    Note that there is a crack on the Liberty Bell. Next theme is coin with a crack.
     
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  20. Stork

    Stork I deliver

    This little bean money has a bit of cracking.

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    This is Daikoku, god of plenty/good fortune (and a few other things). He's holding a hammer/mallet aka the 'money mallet'. So next up, something with a hammer.
     
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  21. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    It's hammer time:
    IMG_5246.jpg

    Next is coins with a lady standing.
     
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