Wild Man Sighting And A Challenge To Post Yours

Here is something interesting.





There are records of a man born in 1547 with hypertrichosis.
Wiki has a bit of info on him

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Gonsalvus

He was quite an attraction and some of his childen where given away to dukes in europe as pets
Petrus Gonsalvus was not considered fully human and the people where fascinated to see someone who looked as if he is bridging the gap between animal and human.

Netflix still has a documentary about him online.
Its called The real beauty and the beast

Sounds great!

In the meanwhile, here is a pfennig from Brunswick-Luneburg-Callenberg. It is dated 1780 and contains the mintmaster initials CES. It looks to me like this coin has spent considerable time in the ground.

as promised, here is my Wildman .

I believe it is a proof ,made by the artist on tin , the reverse is blank with rests of paper .
The medal is made by François de Hondt , an artist from Bruges (Belgium , 1786-1862 ). He made this medal in 1828 , 2 years before the independence of Belgium , for the Royal School of Fine Arts in 'sHertogenbosch , now in the Netherlands .
The Wildman is represented with his right hand on the crowned coat of arms of 'sHertogenbosch.
On the left , there is an orangetree , as symbol of the house of Orange-Nassau , the family of the king of the Netherlands.
ref : J.Dirks,Ned.Penningen,p 241 , nr 300.
52 mm , 19.8 gr .
albert.

great medal albert--thanks for sharing.

@zohar444, yep correct (also mentioned by @jdmern)

Thanks to @j1m's sharp eyes, I have another wildman to post from my collection. Here is a Groschen from the German Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel dated 1572 AD. The wildman is on the rev, standing next to the imperial orb.

Here's one I posted as a topic a couple of years ago.

1613 German States BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBUTTEL Thaler

Wildman is uprooting a tree as described in the book @jdmerm referenced.