Roman Republican Coins #'s 69-70: Centaurs & Elephants

I have a similar type of Coventry Halfpenny token with the date 1792, depicting Lady Godiva on the obverse and an Elephant and Castle on the reverse. See Withers/Dalton & Hamer 231; ill. Withers p. 345. There are apparently a number of different edge inscriptions; mine says "PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF ROBERT REYNOLDS & CO."

 

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Great coin and write-up, @DonnaML, congrats! I'll add an elephant from George III (Ceylon) to the thread


and another centaur with writeup: Prusias II and the Roman Republic.

Kings of Bithynia, Prusias II Cynegos, reigned 182-149 BC, Nikomedia, Bronze Æ
Obv: Draped bust of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠΡΟYΣIOY, the centaur Chiron standing right, cloak over shoulder, playing lyre, to lower right, monogram.
Size: 22mm, 6.25g
Ref: Lindgren 201 (Kings of Bithynia), BMC 10, CoinProject 246689; AMC 3026;

 

Some computer program somewhere must be reading what I post here, because this article on the history of centaurs in ancient Greek art appeared in my Google News feed yesterday:

https://www.thecollector.com/centaur-in-greek-art/amp/

My favorite illustration is this early centaur from Lefkandi in Euboea, dating to approximately the 10th Century BCE -- according to this article, "the first complete example of a centaur." It's made of ceramic, and is 36 cm. high.