Lion Coins

Here's another interesting lion reverse. This one I still own.

I found it in an uncleaned lot back in 2000 and didn't have a clue what it was until I found a similar coin in one of Tom Cederlind's catalogues in 2002.

I was shocked to see how rare it is!

I agree that for price, availability, and quality of execution of the lion theme it would be hard to beat the silver fractions of Cheronessos. But if you are looking for something Roman, the first coin type that comes to my mind is an XF strike of the Dea Caelestis reverse of Septimius Severus and family:

Call me crusty if you want, but I wish people wouldn't mix modern with ancients in this forum. I assumed that Arael was looking for an ancient coin type without needing to say so, since he posted it here.

Ethiopia. Kinda hard to mistake their writing for anything else (except maybe Georgian or Armenian).
And just for the record, my favorite coin design with a lion on it is this type (though I like it for the oranges, not the lion).

Going back to ancients, there is the Leo I copper (Tesorillo 163), though any example you could find is probably going to be crude and tiny... as should be expected for a mid-5th century AE4 (sadly, no photo - I have two other AE types of Leo I, but not the lion).

Doug Smith wrote an article regarding ancient coins with lions on them; it mentions the Septimius Severus coin, as well as the Leo I coin, but not many of the others suggested above (and indeed seems to be limited, like many of his other articles, to coins in his collection).

Wives (or budgetary advisors as they are often referred to) tend to impose caps on things like that (but not handbags?)

Lovely coin but well into 4 figures I think... same as this type (also too expensive but beautiful)

Wow I would say you did rather well there... deserving of fruit (not something I hand out lightly)

Kassander AE