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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4313790, member: 96898"]It's hard to watch "Tiger King" – in many ways, the show is painfully spot-on. I understand it as a sort of chamber play that unsparingly reveals general problems of contemporary America by looking at a peripheral social microcosm like big cat owners. Watching it, you wonder why a society would choose to tolerate and even enable this bunch of delusional megalomaniacs instead of gently protecting others from them and them from themselves. This can be transferred to larger issues and other prominent figures, I guess. In an apocryphal dictum, Bertolt Brecht described his artistic program as 'distorting things into recognizability' (die Dinge zur Kenntlichkeit entstellen). "Tiger King" does something similar. But I am rambling. Here are some big cat coins. [ATTACH=full]1096866[/ATTACH]Dynasts of Lycia, Mithrapata, AR 1/6 stater, ca. 390–370 BC: Obv: Lion scalp facing. Rev: METRAPA[T]A in Lycian script; triskele; in field, dolphin. 13mm, 1.13g. Ref: SNG Copenhagen Suppl. 476 var. Ex Redoubt Numismatics, TX. [ATTACH=full]1096867[/ATTACH] Thrace, Chersonesos, AR hemidrachm, ca. 386–338 BC. Obv: forepart of lion r., head reverted. Rev: four-part incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; HP-monogram and pellet in upper sunken quarter, pellet in lower sunken quarter. 13mm, 2.4g; SNG Copenhagen 828 var (pellet instead of leaf on reverse). Ex AMCC 1, lot 11. [ATTACH=full]1096869[/ATTACH] Septimius Severus, Roman Empire, denarius, 194 AD, Rome mint. Obv: L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP III, head of Septimius Severus, laureate, r. Rev: LIBERO PATRI, Bacchus (Liber), wreathed, naked except for cloak over left arm, emptying oenochoe in r. hand over panther, and holding garlanded thyrsus in l. hand 17.5mm, 2.53g. Ref: RIC IV.1 Septimius Severus 32. [ATTACH=full]1096868[/ATTACH] Septimius Severus, Roman Empire, AR denarius, 202–210 AD, Rome mint. Obv: SEVERVS PIVS AVG; head of Septimius Severus, laureate, r. Rev: INDVLGENTIA AVGG IN CARTH; Dea Caelestis, draped, riding r. on lion, holding thunderbolt in r. hand and sceptre in l. hand; below, water gushing from rock. 19mm, 3.32g. Ref: RIC IV Septimius Severus 266. Ex Marc Breitsprecher; ex Secret Saturn 2019. [ATTACH=full]1096862[/ATTACH] Hindu Shahi, Samanta Deva, AE jital, ca. 850–1000 AD, Ohind mint (?). Obv: Elephant advancing l.; Nagari legend “Sri Samanta Deva” above. Rev: Lion standing r. with jaws open and paw raised. 16mm, 1.64g. Ref: Tye 19. [ATTACH=full]1096865[/ATTACH] Norman Kingdom of Sicily, under William II "the Good," AE trifollaro, 1166–1189 AD, Messina mint. Obv: lion's head facing. Rev: palm tree. 26mm, 10.27g. Ref: Spahr 117; Biaggi 1231. [ATTACH=full]1096863[/ATTACH] Gosdantin III or IV, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, AR Takvorin, 1344–1373 AD, Sis or Tarsus mint. Reverse: Armenian legend, king riding r., holding lily sceptre. Rev: Armenian legend, lion with cross walking r. 23mm, 1.97g. Ref: Nercessian 471–478; 491–496. [ATTACH=full]1096864[/ATTACH] City of Braunschweig, AR "Ewiger Pfennig" (bracteate), after 1412 AD. Obv: lion walking l. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 21 mm, 0.45g. Ref: Berger 993–1001. Ex Leu, Webauktion 8, lot 1929.[/QUOTE]

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