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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4465970, member: 110350&quot;]Here are some lions.</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, Sear RCV I 308 (ill.).&nbsp; 20.13 mm., 3.84 g. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1112121[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus, AR Denarius 203-204 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head right,&nbsp; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1112122[/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.&nbsp; RIC IV-3 12, RSC IV 173, Sear RCV III 8956 (ill.). 23 mm., 3.41 g.&nbsp; (<i>Games commemorating 1,000th anniversary of founding of Rome</i>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1112123[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next, the reverse of one of the 40-medal series by James Mudie, issued in 1820, commemorating British military and naval victories during the Napoleonic Wars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Great Britain, 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. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1112124[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, these two aren&#039;t coins or medals or tokens, but they are 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]1112125[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1112126[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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