Are there many coins with seahorses? I can't imagine that's a terribly common subject! Where is the seahorse on that? I must be missing it.
Not that many. Only 34 results on Numista - https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=seahorse&p=1&ct=coin&x=17&y=13
Yeah, i only have the one,(coin not sense of humour) and like paddyman says there are only 34. Thought it might be interesting to see how many members here had 1.
Without this thread, I wouldn't have been the wiser to any coins existing depicting a seahorse, let alone 34 of them! Seahorses have always intrigued me. The hippocampus, part of the body's limbic system, is so-shaped like one. Hippo is Greek for horse, while campus is Greek for sea monster. So we all have sea monster horses deep and medially within our temporal lobes, encircling our thalamic tissue, responsible for short-term memory deposition and the priming of positive emotions so long as expectations meet reality. Seahorses are one of God's select few creations that I will not immediately assert my dominance over.
The hippocamp was a mythical sea horse. The ancients believed they were the adult-form of the small fish we call the "sea-horse." Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman billon antoninianus, 3.66 g, 21.4 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 267-268. Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head, right. Rev: NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp swimming right; N in exergue. Refs: RIC 245K; Göbl 743b; Cohen 667; RCV 10292; Hunter 121; Cunetio 1393.
