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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2881717, member: 10461&quot;]Hey, Cointessa.&nbsp; That&#039;s probably not coincidental.&nbsp; Though he looks more soldierly than saintly in the coin portrayals of him slaying the dragon, that&#039;s <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon" rel="nofollow">Saint George</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is in his guise as the patron saint of England that we most often see him on coins, though he&#039;s a very old motif and is not exclusively revered by the British.</p><p><br /></p><p>Funny how you&#039;d note the similarity between that design and the old Roman one of the soldier spearing a fallen foe.&nbsp; That&#039;s pretty observant.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why, but for some reason, that similarity never really dawned on me until just now. It is almost certainly no coincidence.&nbsp; In a similar historical echo, the Seated Britannia one sees on old British coins (herself the inspiration for our US Seated Liberties) was first seen on a Roman coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Great Britain: gold half-sovereign of Queen Victoria, 1901, from the Terner Collection</font></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/GB-HalfSov-1901-029500-coin-800x500.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/GB-HalfSov-1901-029500-slab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse</b>: veiled old head of Queen Victoria left.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse:</b> Pistrucci&#039;s Greco-Romanized rendition of Saint George slaying the Dragon: St. George right, naked except for cape, on back of rearing horse, wielding <i>gladius</i>-style short sword to strike at dragon below.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">KM 784, .917 gold/.1177 oz. 3.99 g. Mintage: 2,037,999. PCGS MS64, with Terner pedigree noted on label. Cert. #90089936. Ex-Dimitri Gotzamanis, Athens, Greece.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">(*Note that while this is the &quot;newest acquisitons&quot; thread, the coin above happens to be one of my <i>earliest</i> acquisitions presently held in The Eclectic Box.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had it for 14 or so years, which is practically an eternity in the life cycle of my collections.)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">PS- [USER=87186]@LaCointessa[/USER] - if you like the St. George motif on those Canadian tokens of the 1850s, you should be aware that they are for the most part extremely affordable.&nbsp; Check them out on eBay, etc, if you want one.&nbsp; If I had one handy (I often do), I&#039;d send you one, but at the moment the only one I have was made into a love token and is destined for my &quot;Holey Coin Hat&quot;.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">PPS- since you&#039;re obviously artistic and into coins, perhaps I should shove you down the slippery slope into sharing my enthusiasm for <a href="http://lovetokensociety.com/history/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://lovetokensociety.com/history/" rel="nofollow">love tokens</a>.&nbsp; I think they&#039;d be a good fit for you. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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