Let's see some birds (... isn't that cute)

[Curtis JJ]

1 hour ago, Curtisimo said:

I’ll go bird watching with you all.

1 hour ago, jdmKY said:

Here’s my flock

@CurtisimoI think our Koson eagles are die matches (actually, both sides)! And I think we have obv. die matches to @jdmKY's Koson Consul & Lictors & co. (Different eagle though. I like how that one looks almost spotted like a leopard!)

 

 

[UkrainiiVityaz]

I'll kill two birds with one post - a rampant lion and an eagle - this is a Ron Landis of Gallery Mint Museum creation from the mid 1990s.

[Curtis JJ]

Oh -- and -- Did someone say chicken?

I got my first two chickens recently: TROAS, Dardanos. 5th century BCE. I think both types are usually described as a Tetartemorion. (But I wonder if the right/bottom coin might even be a Hemitetartemorion? These are generally considered a bit rare, maybe scarce, but especially so for the ones with head right,  which I don't think has been published, though there are a couple examples from past sales -- assuming the rev. is oriented properly.)

They're plainly not nice. But I love tiny coins. Came in kind of a "floor sweepings" group lot of 18 unidentified tinies from the Herbert Cahn (1915-2002) and "J. de Wilde" (?) collections at CNG EA 516 in May. Got them for the opening bid (like $10 each or something) and didn't expect much. I was actually pleasantly surprised. (I shared a quick 16s coin-in-hand video showing 8 of them on both side in another comment.)

I believe both have an incuse calf head on the reverse. Obverse, a very happy but headless chicken! 

Edited August 6, 2022 by Curtis JJ

[LONGINUS]

Great thread @ambr0zie — I’m enjoying all of this beautiful avian currency.

 

Here’s a rare one from my Judaean  collection.

 

[DonnaML]

Instead of a bunch of ancient eagles just standing there on reverses from Antioch, or figurines of eagles on legionary standards, how about a French rooster for a change?

And a French eagle to go with it, to illustrate the Battle of the Pyrenees in 1813.  I don't think the British lion savaging a French rooster would have been nearly as awe-inspiring:

Another French eagle, representing Napoleon's flight from Elba (resulting in the destruction of the Temple of Janus, etc.):

Prussian eagle:

A sea-eagle attacking a dolphin, on a drachm from Thrace, Istros:

A stork (associated with Pietas), from Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius:

Two unidentified flying avian objects, courtesy of Anonymous:

An eagle on a denarius of Q. Cassius Longinus, with either Bonus Eventus or Genius Populi Romani on the obverse:

 

From L. Papius Celsus, an eagle fanning the flames for a she-wolf; Juno Sospita admires the scene:

Phoenix (possibly in form of Numidian Crane) on Roman Alexandrian tetradrachm of Antoninus Pius:

Divus Marcus Aurelius:

Divus Septimius Severus:

Peacocks on coins issued for Diva Faustina II and Diva Mariniana:

Claudius II Gothicus Tetradrachm with eagle on reverse, Roman Alexandria, Year 2:

A juvenile Licinius II Caesar with a reverse depicting an eagle among other assorted characters, namely "Jupiter standing facing, head left, chlamys over left shoulder, holding crowning Victory with right hand and eagle-tipped long scepter with left hand; at his feet to left, another eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak; at his feet to right, bound captive with beard, seated right, head turned back to left."

Finally, eagles on various tetradrachms from Antioch and Tyre:

https://www.numisforums.com/topic/801-philip-i-tetradrachm-antioch/?do=findComment&comment=13669

https://www.numisforums.com/topic/335-lets-see-your-syro-phoenician-tetradrachms/?do=findComment&comment=8138

 

Edited August 8, 2022 by DonnaML

[Justin Lee]

A lil rooster...

 

A hungry silver eagle...

 

An AE Antiochene eagle...

 

A Mamertine eagle...

[Barzus]

Roman Consecration coinage does not lack birds! A few eagles below, which I think I did not show yet:

 

Edited August 17, 2022 by Barzus

[EtTu]

A few of my birds: 

Gallienus Stork

Itty bitty bird you can just see under the bow on the reverse. Ex BCD coin from Lamia.

Sikyonia Dove

And to change things up a little bit, a Roman zoomorphic brooch. Unfortunately, the pin appears to be modern.

 

[shanxi]

@EtTuYour first bird is very nice, but is it a stork?

Legs and neck are much too short.

 

Something like this?

Copyright:By Andreas Trepte, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15764295 

 

 

Edited August 17, 2022 by shanxi

[EtTu]

@shanxi All the references I've seen identify it as a stork, so I just went with it. 🤷‍♀️

[Spaniard]

LAODICEA AD LYCUM (Phrygia) 14mm/4.0gr. Ca 200-100 BC.
Obverse: Draped bust of Aphrodite right, wearing stephane, hair in bun.
Reverse: ΛAOΔIKEΩN. Aphrodite standing left, holding dove, rose with stalk to left.
BMC Phrygia (p.284)27, SNG Copenhagen 497; SNG München 340; HGC 7, 744
SCARCE (R1 per HGC) Laodicea ad Lycum mint

[expat]

Just to be a bit different. An Austria 8Florin/20Francs in Gold, 1892, with the magnificent Hapsburg double eagle reverse

 

 

[DonnaML]

Since we've expanded beyond coins, I might as well contribute these five "bird" antiquities (all previously posted in the artifacts forum), for anyone who hasn't seen them:

An Attic Black-figure Lekythos, ca. 525-500 BCE, pygmies hunting rooster (or rooster hunting pygmies), 3 1/2" (8.9 cm) high, purchased 12.17.2019, Hixenbaugh Ancient Art, NYC:

Corinthian aryballos, ca. 600 BCE, rooster and swan, 62 mm. H x 56 mm. W at widest point, purchased 12/16/2019, Ancient & Oriental (antiquities.co.uk, Christopher Martin):

My small ancient Roman bronze eagle, which is approximately 45 mm. (1 4/5") high. Purchased 12/23/2019, Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, CA:

Roman bronze cockerel with integral base, 2nd-3rd century AD, 50.8 mm. H (including 12.7 mm. integral base), 47.6 mm. L.  Purchased 12/19/2007, Artemission, London, UK.  

 

Egypt, Bronze Horus falcon - standing falcon on integral base, with wings folded, wearing crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, 26th Dynasty, ca. 663-525 BCE. 2 1/8” H x 2 1/8” L x 3/4” Deep (measurements include integral base). Purchased
1/27/1986, Harmer Rooke Numismatists, Ltd., NYC:

I have no provenance for the Horus falcon from before my 1986 purchase -- one of my earlier antiquities purchases -- but if I had to guess, I think the wooden stand that came with it looks pretty old, perhaps early 20th century?

Edited August 17, 2022 by DonnaML

[IanG]

 

Bird on the front, bird on the back!

Drachm from Himera, Sicily, 530-483 BC.