Show us your quadrigas (carriage drawn by four animals)

both types posted already, but here's one..





and here's one...

 

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All I have is a biga . Dang the pic doesn't show .Well the one with the wash clothe background shows . lol If you look close enough the coin is in there somewhere .

 

PROBUS antoninianus
Soli Invicto driving his quadriga




MACRINUS as
Macrinus riding his triumphal quadriga crowned by Victory


Z.

 

Nice looking coin rzage

 

Have a few to show.

Probus ..276-282..AD.
AE Antoninus..
Quadriga
Rome..Mint..
22mm x 3.56g.



Constantine l...337-340..AD..
Quadriga..
Hand of God..
Mint..SMAN..Antioch
18mm x 1.63g.



P Maenius Antiaticus...132 BC..
AR denarius ..
Quadriga..
18mm x 3.90g.

 

Nice coins John. Love the Republican. Well struck, especially the reverse.

 

Thanks jw, the hand of God coin is one you bought from Europe for me a year or so ago, has a great hand, hope all's well with you and family, since i retired i never stop going, so many thing to do...take care my friend..

 

Thanks for asking John. All is going OK for the moment. It's one day at a time for my wife, but so far so good. Another procedure coming up soon. I'm dreading it for her. Glad you are well. How's the brother? I never hear from him any more. Nowthat you are retired, are you doing a lot of coin shows? Take care

 

Sorry to hear about your wife's woes, Bing.

Here's a Roman Republic quadrigia from my recent mixed lot folly, one of the better coins. I didn't have one of this type, so it's a welcome addition.

 

Fantastic coin display, gang!!

=> Man, we really do have some pretty cool lookin' coins, eh?!! (congrats, to everyone)

 

Wow.
I leave this thread to photograph my NEWP & return to find dozens of quadrigas posted. Here is the third coin purchased this last weekend:

ROMAN EGYPT
ALEXANDRIA
Hadrian
AE Drachm
117-138 A.D.
27.00 grams, 34 mm.
Obv: Laur. Dr. Cuirassed bust right
Rev: Hadrian in quadriga of elephants right. LENΔE.KATOV
Grade: Fine light chocolate brown color
Other: Sear 1175 (pg 151) B.M.C.G.860., Milne 1216var., Koln 967var.
Rare 15 leg variety much like the USA 3-legged buffalo nickel?
From Eye Appealing Coins 11/2013.

 

Very nice Collect. Very nice.

 

Elephant quad? Fabulous.

 

Would you guys help me with the letters of the Hadrian obverse legend? I'd like to include the proper letters on the label but this is difficult for illiterate me.

 

AYT = AVTOKPATOP = IMPERATOR = Emperor

KAI = KAICAP = CAESAR

The next few letter are mushy, but I assume it's part of Hadrian's name.

API(? - would be C) CEB = APICTOS CEBACTOS = OPTIMUS AVGVSTVS

Note that sigma is written in the uncial form C on most Eastern provincials.

 

Here are my quadrigae (I never took latin in school, but I am guessing this is the plural of quadriga?)

A Caligula dupondius celebrating Germanicvs success in the recovery of 2 of the 3 legionary standards lost in the battle of the Teutoburger Forest.
An Augustus denarius
An denarius for Titus
A Macrinus as (similar to zumblys)
A republican denarius, 86 bc (if my memory serves me right)

 

Roman Republic Denarius (58 B.C.) depicting Jupiter in galloping quadriga with a scorpion below the horses. (Yes this is the same NEWP I recently posted in the other thread)

 

Collect89 => wow, I'm lovin' the elephant quad!! (*sweet*)

Oh, and fantastic coins, Eduard!! (as per usual)

 

The right side of the Hadrian legend is TPAI (Trajan) ADPIA (Hadrian = Greek used on H as a consonent) CEB (Sebastos = Augustus). For the first part of his reign Hadrian almost always included Trajan in the name. Similarly, Trajan usually used Nerva in his legends. Letters lost to small flans have been known to cause incorrect ID's. There was a time when we saw many coins of Septimius Severus IDed to Pertinax because SS used PERT in his legends for the first half of the reign. In all these cases, the name of the previous ruler added legitimacy to the new man who succeeded.