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Hey there folks! I'm on the prowl for a new coin type recently, and would really love to have a coin with a lion in my collection. So I was hoping all of you could post your favorite coin types that have a lion in the design, partly to see some cool designs and partly to give me some inspiration for my next piece! I look forward to seeing what you guys have!
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United Kingdom
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Despite liking the above suggestion you probably want something a little older... Let me suggest ^^   These aren''t great photo's but it is one of my coins... if you want to search for one on Vcoins try "Thrace Chernesos" |
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United States
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 Always a classic |
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United Kingdom
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Is that a Lydia? Whatever it is that's a great coin... Almost forgot I have another one with a lion... but it is very very small...  |
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Haha I've already got a chernesos I'm quite find of. Just looking for even more lions. And a Lydian would be nice... Although that will never be in my price range. Keep the suggestions coming folks! I'm loving it so far.
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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!   Paul Bulgerin
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 Lydia AR Stater 500-460 BC 18.3 mm x 9.15 grams BMC 16 ACFV |
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United States
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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:  |
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United States
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Here's a nice lion
Staff edit - Removed image of modern coin
Don't know where from, Malaysia, maybe.
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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.
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I agree crusty, but I think they see the thread title in the newly replied threads bar on the left and answer without realising it is in the ancients section. No big deal, everyone's human (I hope)
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Don't know where from, Malaysia, maybe. 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). |
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A Bruttium lion would be nice, although this particular AR example from CNG would have been well above my wife-imposed spending cap...  |
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Posted 10/30/2015 12:07 pm
