i am a bull in Zodiac sign show you zodia sign offcourse bull out my collection i am getting wild from red hehe bulls getting wild to iff they see red
C'mon ... this is potentially a fun thread! No one is a Cancer with a coin from Agrakas? No Gemini has a Roman Republican with Castor and Pollux? No Capricorn has a capricorn denarius of Augustus? No Pisces has a coin with a couple of tunny fish? No Sagittarius has a coin with an archer?
Cancer - I am a Blight upon Humanity Crab Apollonia Pontika, Thrace. AR diobol(1.3g) 410/404-341/323 B.C. Obv: Full-face laureate Apollo with short hair. Rev: Magistrate's initals around the images. Upright anchor with thick flukes and a rectangular stock. The letter A on one side and the additional symbol of a crab viewed from above on the other side between flukes and the stock. Topalov 56
Yeah, my Wife's is just AFTER Xmas (15-Jan), so the Xmas funds are dry, and it is a scramble to figger out what to get her in "dreary January!" I should get a couple Capricorn Ancients... one to give her for her little coin Album, and one for my collection.
Gemini- I can't really think of a Gemini coin. Unless you count the twins suckin the she wolf. Which I really hadn't considered, but what the heck.
GEMINI: Got any of the Dioscuri? Wikipedia: "In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor[1] and Pollux,[2] or Kastor and Polydeuces,[3] were twin brothers, together known as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi.[4] Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters or half-sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. In Latin the twins are also known as the Gemini[5] or Castores.[6] When Castor was killed, Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together, and they were transformed into the constellation Gemini. The pair were regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo's fire, and were also associated with horsemanship."
LIBRA (Venus is holding scales on reverse) Roman Republic 46BC Mn. Cordius Rufus Obv: RVFVS III VIR, conjoined heads of the Dioscuri r., wearing pilei surrounded by stars. Rev: MN CORDIVS (or similar, MN in monogram), Venus standing left, holdings scales and sceptre, Cupid at shoulder
INTERESTING: I envision a mini collection coming together to focus on - A complete Zodiac set from the Republic??? or Wherever / Whenever?
My CHINESE ZODIAC sign is the Boar... RR C Hosidius C F Geta 68 BCE Diana bow quiver Boar Hound spear Sear 346 Craw 407/2 Campania CAPUA AE Uncia 216-211 Diana Boar Hannibal's future capital of Italia Iberia - Castulo AE14 Quarter Unit Bust - BOAR w-star 2nd C BCE Mysia Kyzikos AR Hemiobol 480-450 BCE 0.4g Boar-Lion Sear 3850
Cool thread, I've thought about getting my zodiac sign on a coin. But coins with scorpions are either pretty rare or expensive. My Chinese zodiac is snake, a bit more easier to get but also a bit pricey in good condition.
My CHINESE ZODIAC sign is the Ox NERVA AE 27mm OBVERSE: DIVOS NERVA AVGVSTVS, laureate head right REVERSE: AVG FEL BER COL IVL, founder plowing right Struck at Berytos, Phoenicia, 98-117 AD by Trajan 12.6g, 24mm BMC 82
Coins of Commagene, Syria, under Queen Iotape have scorpions on them and they aren't terribly high-priced. Here's one of mine, admittedly in suboptimal grade: Iotape, Wife and possibly sister of Antiochus IV, AD 38-72. Syria, Commagene, AE 24.8 mm, 13.50 g Obv: ΒΑCΙΛΙCΑ ΙΩΤΑΠΗ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟC , diademed and draped bust, right. Countermarked anchor on neck. Rev: ΚOΜΜΑΓΕΝΩΝ, scorpion; all within wreath. Refs: SGI 5514, BMC 20.109,1.
I believe in the Zodiac signs or Horoscope as I believe in flying saucers or Aladdin and the magic lamp. Still my sign is said to be Virgo. I chose this scarce coin of Eudoxia that could scarcely represent this sign.
