Help Build A Compendium Of Saints On Coins: Alphabetical By Issuing Entity.

Three new saints. Super!

And I'll complement @spence's medieval St. Matthew with this baroque rendering on a Papal States piastra of 1678

Russian Empire -- 10 rubles, 1899:

At first I thought it was just a letter T inside a circle. According to Frynas, it is a "head facing within a square".

Another Salzburg coins, but with a twist...
This commemorative 1/2 thaler of 1682 does NOT have ST. Rupert, but shows five saints whose relics are in Salzbug cathedral:
St. Martin of Tours, shown in his bishop's garb instead of on a horse, and with a goose (because that's what is served on his feast day)
St. Vincent who we saw previously on a coin of Berne, and the early martyrs St. Hermes, and Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria.

Russian Empire -- 15 rubles, 1897:

Lots of Russian Saint George coins here, but all of them show him in the middle of the eagle.

Here's Saint George by himself, without a surrounding eagle, on a mildly scarce 1 kopek coin from 1728...



(I apologize both for the coin quality, and for the photo quality.)

There's a bunch of other saint coins I could have posted previously (and probably a few more that I could have posted later), but none of them photographed, alas.


One type (well, series) I really want to have, but (yet) don't: a 15th century Saint George coin from the Grand Duchy of Moscow, before it became Russia. (At some point they switched from a recognizable Saint George to a generic horseman.)
There's a bunch of those types, but most examples I've seen were far past my budget, and, IIRC, none of the (three or four) 15th century Russian silvers that I did acquire were of this series.

I'm also tempted to post some contemporary portrait coins of eventually-sainted Roman rulers, like Helena... don't think that would be eligible? Don't have any already photographed, anyway.

An incorrect lesson though - apparently the generic dragon-less horsemen were just a normal feature of Muscovite/Russian coins, while the Saint George scene was a relatively brief mid-15th century innovation.

(Here's one on Numista; catalogs apparently tend to describe those types with wordings along the lines of "horse rider spearing snake", so it might not necessarily be a depiction of Saint George, though if it isn't it looks darn similar.)

By the late 15th century the horsemen aren't even holding spears; in 1535, the spears return for the new larger denomination (and stay there until the end of the series in the late 1710s), but the dragon never appears on the hammered silver again.