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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4313683, member: 110350&quot;]I posted all or most of the following coins in the recent &quot;Show Us Your Lions&quot; thread (see <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/show-us-your-lions.357044/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/show-us-your-lions.357044/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/show-us-your-lions.357044/</a>), but figured that there&#039;s no harm in showing them again!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus, AR Denarius 203-204 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, SEVERVS PIVS AVG / Dea Caelestis in headdress riding right on lion, holding thunderbolt &amp; scepter; below, water gushing from rocks left; INDVLGENTIA AVGG; in exergue: IN CARTH. RIC IV-1 266, RSC III 222, Sear RCV II 6285. 18x20 mm., 3.9 g. (<i>This coin is believed to commemorate a public works project in Carthage, probably having to do with the water supply.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096820[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic. C. Poblicius Q.f. AR Serrate Denarius, 80 BCE. Obv. Head of Roma right, wearing helmet decorated with grain ears; ROMA behind, V above / Rev. C•POBLICI•Q•F; Hercules standing left, strangling the Nemean Lion; bow and quiver to left, club below; V above lion. Crawford 380/1; RSC I Poblicia 9; Sydenham 768. 20.13 mm., 3.84 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096821[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip I AR Antoninianus, 248 AD, Rome Mint, 1st Officina. Obv. Radiate, draped, &amp; cuirassed bust right, IMP PHILIPPVS AVG/ Rev. Lion walking right, SAECVLARES AVGG, I in exergue. RIC IV-3 12, RSC IV 173. 23 mm., 3.41 g. (Games commemorating 1,000th anniversary of founding of Rome.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096823[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Not coins, but they&#039;re ancient and they&#039;re lions, both from Egypt and both depicting Sekhmet -- one of limestone, from the 22nd-23rd Dynasties, and one of blue faience, from the 26th Dynasty.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096829[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096830[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, although it&#039;s not ancient, one of the 1820 James Mudie series of 40 medals commemorating British Military and Naval Victories during the Napoleonic Wars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Siege of Acre 1799 (Struck 1820). Obv. Bust l., uniformed, ADMIRAL SIR S. SMITH/ Rev. British Lion, within a rocky pass, protects Syrian camel from menacing French tiger. In exergue: ACRE DEFENDED. BUONAPARTE REPULSED SYRIA SAVED. XX MAY MDCCLXXXXIX. AE 41 mm. By G. Mills/ N.G.A. Brenet. Mudie 7, Eimer 906, BHM 476 [I photographed only the reverse, because the obverse, like many in the Mudie series, is not of great interest.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096831[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the comic-book superhero muscles on the sturdy British lion, compared to the scrawny, skulking, cowardly French tiger -- which doesn&#039;t even have stripes![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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