Post Your Coins/Medals/Tokens Depicting Imaginary Personifications Or Allegories.

Thank you.


Yes.

This thread is like shooting fish in a barrel for ancient collectors!

It will take some dredging, but I think I have some time.

Here's a rather typical example from Licinius I, who was Constantine's co-emperor and mortal enemy. Reverse is GENIO POP ROM, Genius of the Roman People.



Genius was a rather generic deity, most closely analogous to a guardian angel; there were thousands upon thousands, guarding individuals, nations, and even places and objects. The Romans thought that a person's Genius was at work when things happened to work out for the best, especially when the odds seemed stacked against them. Some of that tradition trickled down into the Catholic veneration of saints; I was given a Saint Christopher visor clip when I got my driver's license and instructed to never remove it so that I would be granted safe passage wherever I went. Same concept here.

@Finn235: Good one....I wonder if there is the genius of CCF people.

@Dorado: Nice example of standing liberty from Peru.
There was a Peruvian provisional coinage representing Ceres on the obverse, goddess of agriculture, harvest and fertility, with bun and headband of flowers and wheat spikes, engraved by Robert Britten.

5 pesetas 1880

Modern examples:

USSR - 1Rouble 1965 - 20 years of Victory over Fascist Germany in WWII (Great Patriotic War)
Russia - 10 Roubles 2015 - for the 70 years of Victory




Both coins depict a monument located in Soviet War Memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It is a representation of a Victorious Soviet soldier, with a sword holding a German child, standing over a broken swastika.



USSR - 1Rouble 1975 - 30 years Victory over Fascist Germany in WWII (Great Patriotic War)



This coin depicts an allegorical figure named "The Motherland Calls".
It is a huge (52 metres tall) statue which was inaugurated in 1967, on the top of the hill Mamayev Kurgan, remembering the Battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), August 1942 to February 1943. It is said that it is a modern interpretation of Nike, the Victory Greek goddess.

The below three French coins depict on the obverse a National symbol: "La Semeuse".
This figure represents a woman wearing a Phrygian cap sowing seeds upwind, in the rising sun.

France - 2 Francs 1914 - Silver
France - 5 francs 1962 - Silver
France - 20 Euro cents. 2001 - Nordic gold

1910 R Italy
20 centesimi

Representations of Italy (female) and Rome (male).



Steve :)