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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4281690, member: 110350&quot;]One more ancient lion:</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]1089420[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And one not so-ancient, from 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).&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; By G. Mills/ N.G.A. Brenet. Mudie 7, Eimer 906, BHM 476 [<i>I photographed only the reverse, because the obverse, like many in the Mudie series, is not of great interest</i>.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1089422[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;tiger&quot; doesn&#039;t look like any tiger I&#039;ve ever seen -- not only does it lack stripes, but it&#039;s awfully puny-looking compared to the British lion with&nbsp; steroid-inflated biceps and forearms (kind of like the &quot;before&quot; picture in one of those old Charles Atlas ads) -- but that&#039;s what it&#039;s supposed to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>A thread for camels on ancient coins might be interesting -- I know of at least a couple of Republican coins, and I believe I&#039;ve seen some Imperial and Provincial coins of Trajan -- but I won&#039;t be the one to start it, because I wouldn&#039;t be able to contribute![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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