Author Topic: A Managerie of Amazing Beasts (Read 16946 times)

quadrans · « **Reply #25 on:** February 28, 2015, 03:21:45 pm »

Quote from: Jochen on February 28, 2015, 03:05:15 pm

Is it possible, that this is Neptun/Poseidon holding a Trinacrius?

Jochen

Hi Jochen Sorry may be you are right but I find this :

"In late 47 BC Caesar was on Sicily, preparing for his assault on the Pompeian forces in north Africa. During this period a small issue of denarii was produced in his name by Aulus Allienus, then the proconsul of Sicily. The reverse shows a figure of Trinacrus, supposedly a son of Neptune, who may have been invented to account for the name Trinacria, commonly used for Sicily. The coins of Allienus must have seen considerable circulation: almost all surviving specimens are considerably worn."

Q.

quadrans · « **Reply #26 on:** March 08, 2015, 03:17:44 am »

Alexander III., Macedonia, Kings, (The Great, 323 - 317 B.C.), Price 2247b, AR-Drachm, Zeus seated on throne left, griffin left, Rare!

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Q.

Jochen · « **Reply #27 on:** March 08, 2015, 04:45:21 am »

Antoninus Pius from Tyana, Cappadocia: Tyche of Tyana as City-Goddess with mural crown std. l. on throne decorated with griffin; below river god Lamos (or Euphrates?) swimming l. SNG von Aulock 6540; SNG Copenhagen 317; rare

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Enodia · « **Reply #28 on:** March 12, 2015, 01:58:24 pm »

here are a couple of land-locked hippocamps...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-93239
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-116814

~ Peter

Enodia · « **Reply #29 on:** August 23, 2015, 02:52:03 pm »

here's another hippocamp, this one from Taras early in the 5th century BC...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-122839

~ Peter

Jochen · « **Reply #30 on:** March 16, 2016, 05:25:28 pm »

Another gryphion:

Thrace, Abdera, 352-323 BC (VIII period)
AR - Triobol, 1.5g, 12.98mm, 0°
obv. Gryphion l., leaping up, beak somewhat opened, hind feet on club, above 8 pointed star
below MHNO
rev. Square, made of lines, within head of Apollo(?) with laurel wreath in short hairs; field only little deepened.
Around the square ABD - HRI - TE - WN (beginning at top)
ref. AMNG II, 206 (3 ex., Copenhagen, London, Ratto)
rare, VF

Sometimes the head is called Abderos.

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Jochen · « **Reply #31 on:** March 16, 2016, 05:49:44 pm »

Gorgo:

Mysia, Parion, 2nd - 1st c. BC
AE 22, 6.21g, 0°
obv. Head of Gorgo, with snakes and wings, frontal, in dotted circle
in r. field c/m: monogram in circular incus
rev. PA - RI - WN
Eagle with open wings stg. r., before monogram, all in laurel wreath
ref. BMC Mysia, p.100, 69; SNG von Aulock 1330; SNG France 1404
about VF/F, green patina with earthen highlights

Strong portrait! Here the transition from the original grimacing, terror spreading monster into the melancholic , suffering being of the late Hellenistic time is almost finished.

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Enodia · « **Reply #32 on:** March 19, 2016, 03:07:16 pm »

this pegasus is on a triobol from Kroton which i just added to my collection...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-127795

~ Peter

Sam · « **Reply #33 on:** August 24, 2016, 10:12:33 pm »

As I promised my dear friend Peter ( Enodia )
EX FORVM , EX dear friend and great numismatist Andreas Reich.

*With my sincere thank and appreciation , Photo and Description courtesy of FORVM Ancient Coins Staff.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-129707

quadrans · « **Reply #34 on:** September 09, 2016, 11:20:07 am »

This is a real "Amazing Beast" Sam

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Q.

Enodia · « **Reply #35 on:** October 30, 2016, 09:04:33 pm »

yep, great coin Sam.
and no menagerie is complete without a Chimera!

~ Peter

Sam · « **Reply #36 on:** October 30, 2016, 09:52:05 pm »

Enodia · « **Reply #37 on:** November 05, 2016, 11:57:41 pm »

here's another pegasus i just got a few weeks ago. it is certainly not high-grade, but i think it's kinda cute...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-132785

~ Peter

Jochen · « **Reply #38 on:** November 06, 2016, 04:37:56 am »

I think you have never heard of this mythological beast: Ichtyokentaur!

Plautilla, AD 202-211, wife of Caracalla
AE 20, 3.17g, 19.94mm, 225°
obv. FOV PLAV - TILLA CEBA / CTH.
Bust, draped, r.
rev. NEIKOMHDEW - N / DIC NEWKO / RWN
Female ichthyokentaur, diademed, nude, with forefeet of horse and fishtail, ring l. on waves, holding auloi in l. arm and dolphin (?)
in extended r. hand
Rec.Gen. 253 var. (has only CEBA)
extremely rare, good F, nearly black patina (not green!)

For more information please look at the thread 'Coins of mythological interest'

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quadrans · « **Reply #39 on:** February 02, 2017, 02:57:51 pm »

"horned panther"

Lydia, Sardes, Autonomous issue (after 200 B.C.), BMC 44, AE-16, ΣAPΔI/ANΩN, Panther walking left,
avers:- Head of youthful Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy.
revers:- ΣAPΔI/ANΩN horned panther walking left, head front, holding spear in right paw and breaking it with its jaws, MTΡ monogram in left field, ΦMT monogram below.
exe: -/-//--, diameter: 15,5-16,5mm, weight: 5,93g, axis: 11h,
mint: Lydia, Sardes, date: after 200 B.C., ref: BMC 44,

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-134530

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Q.