For the love of horses ?????

Dominion of Carthage
AE Unit 16.4mm @ 5.32g
Unknown Sicilian Mint
Obverse: Palms tree with two dates.
Reverse: Horse Head right,
ref: Lindgren 626 / SNGCop 104 variant.

 

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North Africa, Zeugitana, Carthage
201-195/146 BC
(Third Punic War) - 3 Shekel Piece
27.5mm x 17.78g
Obverse: Head of Tanit (smoking a cigar)
Reverse: Horse Prancing Right.
ref: Cf MAA 105

 

Rare Hannibal Billon Tri-Drachm

North Africa, Zeugitana, Carthage
Hannibal Barca s. 210-205 BC
Billon Tri-drachm 25.6mm x 10.54g
Obverse: Bust of Tanit Left.
Reverse: Horse Standing right, Palm tree behind.
ref. Lorber-168
"Coin Hoards Vol. IX
2002 Punic "Horse & Palm" Billon Tridrachms" by C. Lorber


My favorite Carthage Coin!!!

 

In theory I could go all night with posting horses....I still have more from Africa...and still have 2 other continents and one of them is huge!


Kingdom of Numidia
Massinissa 203-148 BC.
AE unit (Tetradrachm?)
26.8mm x 15.81g
Obverse: Head of Massinissa left.
Reverse: Horse galloping left.

 

C. Piso L.f. Frugi AR Denarius
61 BC
Rome mint
Diameter: 17 mm
Weight: 3.73 grams
Obverse: Head of Apollo right, hair bound with fillet; wreath behind
Reverse: Horseman galloping right, holding whip
Reference: Crawford 408/1b (O40/R56); Hersh, Piso 238 (O235/R2056); Sydenham 866; Calpurnia 24d
Other: 6h, VF, toned, porous surfaces, cleaning marks under tone

 

Wow this thread grew alot today. Wonderful stuff. Many I could only dream of

 

dang, i'm going to get tendinitis from hitting the like button so much ....so many cool coins.

 

I learned today that almost every ancient coin has a horse on it.

 

Nope... just some...

Almost every Ancient Coin from Carthage has a horse on it though

Some here have alot of Ancient coins

Not me though

 

True enough.

 

Domitian AR Denarius
OBV: CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS, laureate head right
REV: COS IIII, winged Pegasus standing right with raising left foreleg
Struck at Rome 76 AD
3.1g, 19mm
RIC 921

 

Pegasus is a Pegasi, not a horse...

Great coin even though wrong thread Bing...

 

I think it is the right thread:

 

I suppose he is correct a Pegasus is a Pegasi...but I must say it has to be accepted because in the case of Carthage the horse and the Pegasi represent the same story and communicate the same theme, the horse was a Punic Logo, displayed on all ships "the colors" and based on who the coinage was supplied to has a lot to do with the kind of "horse" you see.


Ok im gonna slip this in here even though you already saw it-just for hahahs

Dominion of Carthage
North Africa, Zeugitana, Carthage
AE Unit 16mm x 2.29g
c. 250-200 BC
OBV. Pegasus Flying Left
REV. Palm Tree with 2 Dates
ref. rGCV 6530

 

I had bough this coin, simply because it had a great design. The Coin is described as a Coriosolite Amorican Celtic Stater....approx. 20mm and 6.20g The piece is a Billon coin of "debased silver" The coin features a stylized head of Apollo? facing right and on the reverse a stylized Charioteer and Horse Boar below. This coin had been in a previous collection for over 25 years, but a very recent and wildly huge hoard was found on the Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, located between Modern France (Brittany) and England....

See the Article here...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...friends.html

Also I found a great work shop software here....
http://www.writer2001.com/exp0002.htm

I played around with this for quite a while and I learned alot about what I am looking at when I look at Celtic coins, this also helps you with attribution, chronology and to understand the development and significance of the style of these great coins. These coins where circulated as Julius Caesars Army moved West, driving the Gauls towards the Sea.

 

I'm the mythology person...
Defined as a winged horse, but according to myth is a totally different species (other than 1 bizarre copy of a Greek myth, where ever other copy I have found states it isn't a horse, but something greater

@Anoob

You know how much I love Carthage! :thumb:

And a Celtic Stater... An ancestor of mine could have held

Rule Britannia!

 

It may not be a horse to a mythology expert, but in my old eyes I see a horse with wings on Batman's, Anoob's and my coins. I'll concede to the expert however.

 

No expert... just a kid who reads a ton (I'm a speed reader with high comprehension) about Mythology

Although I am in the process of making an essay on the subject of Pegasi... :greensmile:

Whatever

 

you would love this...

http://www.amazon.com/Carthage-Must...39&sr=8-1&keywords=carthage+must+be+destroyed

 

I just finished a book on the Roman Military.. Before that, a 1900 University Text on Roman Mythology (not the oldest I have read, but the oldest I have)... Darn school gets in the way of my reading!

Just Started ERIC... May buy ERIC II soon... along with some more books on the ancients

Looks interesting Anoob...