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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 8317021, member: 44316&quot;]I know of coins with a human foot for the design, and coins with the rear end of a horse, but I don&#039;t have any to show. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, I&#039;ll continue with an <b>astragalus </b>(an ankle bone).&nbsp; Wikipedia says &quot;Dice were originally made from the talus [astagalus] of hoofed animals, leading to the nickname &quot;bones&quot; for dice.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a tiny silver fraction from Teos with a griffin right on one side and a gaming bone on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1472658[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>6th-5th C. BCE according to Klein</p><p>8 mm. 0.22 grams. Teos, Ionia. Klein 475 &quot;tetartemorion&quot;</p><p>CNG ticket says &quot;Troas, Assos(?)&quot;</p><p>SNG Danish --</p><p><br /></p><p>There are coins depicting a person in the acting of gaming with an astragalus, but the astragalus is tiny and only a very small part of the design. </p><p><br /></p><p>Show us something unusual![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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