Mythological menagerie... post your coins with beasts and monsters of legend!

brg5658 said: ↑
That's a horse, not a hippocampus. Hippocampi don't have rear legs...

Oooops, I posted the wrong photo & it's too late to edit. I had intended to depict a Greece 1 or 2 drachma which has the sea-horse.
Here is a sea-lion depicted on the reverse of this 1944 Philippine 5 centavos coin. Does this qualify as a monster?

 

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I know that several of us are looking forward to some stevex6 beast & monster pics.

 

BRING ON PEGASUS!!

 

APOLLONIA PONTICA AR Drachm
OBVERSE: Gorgoneian facing with snakes for hair and a protruding tongue REVERSE: An anchor flanked by letter A and a crayfish, which represents the minting city of Apollonia, the major fifth century BC Greek colony on the west coast of the Black Sea, modern Sozopol in Bulgaria
Struck at Apollonia 450-400 BC
3.13g, 14-15mm
BMC IX, Black Sea 150-151

 

Hey, I found another Pegasus. From the Stack's mixed lot. The coin envelope said "Corinth" but it appears to be an AE23 from Bruttium.

 

THRACE, ABDERA Tetrobol
OBVERSE: Griffin springing left
REVERSE: Magistrate's name around linear border, within which head of Hermes l., caduceus before; all in incuse square
Struck at Abdera 411-385 BC
2.78g,
May 279

 

Not the clearest depiction, but Athena's helmet is decorated with a griffin on this Velia, Lucania didrachm. I love love love this coin

 

C VIBIUS CF CN PANSA CAETRONIANUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS VIBIA AR Denarius
OBVERSE: Mask of Pan right, PANSA below
REVERSE: IOVIS AXVR before, C VIBIVS C F C N behind, Jupiter Axurus seated left Rome 48 BC
5.6, 18mm
Cr449/1a; Syd 947; Vibia 18

 

DOMITIAN AR Denarius
OBVERSE: CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS, laureate head right
REVERSE: COS IIII, winged Pegasus standing right with raising left foreleg
Struck at Rome, 76AD
3.1g, 20mm
RIC 921

 

GALLIENUS Antoninianus
OBVERSE: GALLIENVS AVG - Radiate head right.
REVERSE: APOLLINI CONS AVG, centaur walking right drawing bow. Z in ex.
Struck at Rome, 267-268 AD
2.6g, 19mm
RIC 163, RSC 72

 

GALLIENUS Antoninianus
OBVERSE: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right
REVERSE: NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp or Capricorn right, N below
Struck at Rome, Sole Reign, 267-268 AD
3.9g, 20mm
RIC 245

 

GALLIENUS Antoninianus
OBVERSE: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right
REVERSE: APPOLINI CONS AVG, gryphon walking left, Delta in ex.
Struck at Rome, Sole Reign, 267-268 AD
2.5g, 21mm
RIC 165

 

I know steve has one that looks like Frankenstein

 

Ummm, does the good ol' Bull-man count?



... if not, how 'bout Parthenope (mythical siren) with snakes in her hair?

 

Chimaera

 

Gorgon

 

Sandan with horned Lion

 

Hercules & Erymanthian Boar

M. Volteius M.f.

 

Oh my => it's Griffin/Gryphon Time!!

 

Really nice green on this one.