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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2434753, member: 76194"]I'm going to disappoint. I have but two coins with eagles, and both are Greek. But since you requested coins in general with eagles on them, here they are:</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: I know some of you are probably tired of seeing them, but my collection is still quite small compared to those who have been collecting for decades, so I only have a limited amount to show.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]506327[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]506328[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, I don't put too much stock in those legends. Roman writings are full of omens and visions after the fact. They lived in a superstitious world surrounded by what we now know to be natural phenomenons, but which they had no means to explain, science being in its infancy. So they did their best and sought explanations in omens and visions. Just read any old Roman historian and you will find story after story of eagles, serpents, lightning, or some other event signaling an event before it happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2434753, member: 76194"]I'm going to disappoint. I have but two coins with eagles, and both are Greek. But since you requested coins in general with eagles on them, here they are: PS: I know some of you are probably tired of seeing them, but my collection is still quite small compared to those who have been collecting for decades, so I only have a limited amount to show. [ATTACH=full]506327[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]506328[/ATTACH] At any rate, I don't put too much stock in those legends. Roman writings are full of omens and visions after the fact. They lived in a superstitious world surrounded by what we now know to be natural phenomenons, but which they had no means to explain, science being in its infancy. So they did their best and sought explanations in omens and visions. Just read any old Roman historian and you will find story after story of eagles, serpents, lightning, or some other event signaling an event before it happened.[/QUOTE]
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