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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4284561, member: 96898&quot;]That&#039;s an interesting question. I remember it having been raised in a very worthwhile older thread on extinct animals on ancient coins (see <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-now-extinct-animal-on-a-roman-coin.287175/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-now-extinct-animal-on-a-roman-coin.287175/">here</a>) without anyone having a clear answer. The aurochs was native to much of Europe during the periods when our coins were struck, and many of the bulls appearing on ancient coins could thus theoretically be aurochs. Yet, I wouldn&#039;t know how to tell them apart from domesticated animals.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I forgot to post a bull-and-horseman jital above. That leads us into another untapped area of bull coinage...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1090330[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Tomara Dynasty, Mahipala, AE Jital, mid-11th century or 1103–1128 AD. Obv: stylized bull l.; Nagari legend “Sri Mahipala” above. Rev: stylized horseman r. 14mm, 3.15g. Ref: Tye 39; Deyell: Living without Silver (1990), no. 232; Roy: Coinage of Northern India (1980), S. 93–95. (While Tye and Deyell refrain from suggesting exact dates, Roy attributes the coin to a mid-11th century ruler whose reign in other documents is dated to 1103–1128 AD. There doesn’t appear to be clarity about which date is correct.)</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1090331[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Yajvapala dynasty, Chahada Deva, BI Jital, 1172–1191 AD or later. Obv: stylized bull l.; Nagari legend “Asavari samantha deva” around. Rev: stylized horseman r.; Nagari legend “Sri Chahada Deva” around. 15mm, 3.39g. (Tye dates this coin to 1172–1191 AD, while Cunningham gives Chahada Deva’s reign as 1234–1255, and Smith dates it to 1232–1260. I don&#039;t know which hypothesis is most sensible.)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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