Amazing menagerie

Amazing Menagerie

You’d be surprised how many different kinds of creatures – real and mythical – turn up on Ancient British coins.

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Serpent Proto Boar silver unit of the Corieltavi, c.55-45 BC, Rich Type 1a, drawn by Matthew Rich for his book
Boar Horse (Chris Rudd 2014), which contains 230 detailed coin drawings.

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A few of the many animals and birds that populate Ancient British coins. Note: there are three conjoined horse-muzzles above the horse on the gold stater and a big bird on the bear’s back. See Duck Helmet in Coin News, May 1998.