Post Your Coins With Horses

Upper Canada 1850 Penny

Russian Empire denga of the Tzar Ivan IV the Terrible (1547-1584)

Spain 5 pesetas 1997:

Nice examples!

Very nice!

Here's the US Mark Twain commemorative silver dollar from 2016.

At the right foreground of the obverse of the coin is presented a portrait of a "bushy" Mark Twain in the midst of enjoying his pipe - he is depicted looking straight at the observer with a bit of a grin or smirk on his face. He holds his still-lit pipe in his right hand as smoke rises from it; the smoke wafts up and to the left and forms a silhouette image of Huck Finn and Jim on their raft set against a full moon (they hid during the day!).

The reverse of the coin presents assorted characters from the stories and books of Twain. The focus for this thread can be found at the top of the design, where the knight from the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is seen riding his horse while holding his lance during the big jousting tournament/competition. Also depicted is the frog from "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" story and Huck and Jim once again from the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn book.




For other of my posts on commemorative coins and medals, see: Read More: Commems Collection.

I'm going to cheat a bit with this post, and present the gold Quarter Eagle of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition commemorative coin program.

On the obverse of the Pan-Pac Quarter Eagle, there is mythological animal - the hippocampus. The hippocampus is a fictitious animal that dates to Greek mythology; it was believed to be a combination of the front quarters of a horse and the body and tail of a fish (sometimes identified as a dolphin). An allegorical figure of Columbia - the personification of the United States - is depicted riding the hippocampus and holding a caduceus which is included to represent the medical triumph over yellow fever that enabled the Panama Canal to be be built/completed. (See my Quarter Eagle or General Mythology posts, links below, for more details.)

Half a horse is better than no horse! I bet it swims better than most other horses!

1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition Gold Quarter Eagle


(Image Credit: Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions, https://www.ha.com).

For more on the 1915 Pan-Pac Quarter Eagle, see:

- ]1915 Pan-Pac Quarter Eagle - Coins Representing the Animal Kingdom Thread
- 1915 Pan-Pac Quarter Eagle - Coins with Hands Thread

Links to discussions of mythology on the Panama-Pacific coins:

- 1915 Pan-Pac Silver Half Dollar - Mythology on Coins Thread
- 1915 Panama-Pacific Gold Quarter Eagle - Mythology on Coins Thread
- 1915 Pan-Pac Gold $50 Coin - Mythology on Coins Thread
- 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Misuse of Mythology?


For more posts about commemorative coins and medals, check out: Read More: Commems Collection.