Known animals/ animal models on coins

Can anybody add to this list:

1] Buffalo Nickel - Black Diamond
2] Flying Eagle cent - Peter the Mint Bird
3] Australian ram shilling - Uardry 0.1 (a.k.a. Hallmark)
4] St Helena + Ascension five pence - Jnathan the giant tortoise

See also: http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/ind...c,17643.0.html

Phil.

On Sep 30, 6:54*am, Ice Torch wrote:
Can anybody add to this list:

1] Buffalo Nickel - Black Diamond
2] Flying Eagle cent - Peter the Mint Bird
3] Australian ram shilling - Uardry 0.1 (a.k.a. Hallmark)
4] St Helena + Ascension five pence - Jnathan the giant tortoise

See also:http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/ind...c,17643.0.html

Phil.

I couldn't find any other animals on coins with known names. I figured
Liberia may have made a few coins like the above.

On Sunday, September 30, 2012 5:54:14 AM UTC-5, Ice Torch wrote:
Can anybody add to this list: 1] Buffalo Nickel - Black Diamond 2] Flying Eagle cent - Peter the Mint Bird 3] Australian ram shilling - Uardry 0.1 (a.k.a. Hallmark) 4] St Helena + Ascension five pence - Jnathan the giant tortoise See also: http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/ind...c,17643.0.html Phil.

Your example #2 is far from well-documented from contemporary sources (i.e., the story may be a modern fabrication as seemingly nobody cites Peter much before the U.S. Bicentennial or even later) and besides, it was the Gobrecht silver dollar coinage that is typically cited as Peter lived and died in the U.S. Mint in the 1830's, not the 1850's.

BTW, it is unlikely that the Bird on display in the Philadelphia Mint today is the actual Peter. Dead bird mounted in 1836??? You gotta take these things with a grain of salt.

oly

On Monday, October 1, 2012 11:58:19 AM UTC+1, oly wrote:
On Sunday, September 30, 2012 5:54:14 AM UTC-5, Ice Torch wrote:

Can anybody add to this list: 1] Buffalo Nickel - Black Diamond 2] Flying Eagle cent - Peter the Mint Bird 3] Australian ram shilling - Uardry 0.1 (a.k.a. Hallmark) 4] St Helena + Ascension five pence - Jnathan the giant tortoise See also: http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/ind...,17643.0..html Phil.



Your example #2 is far from well-documented from contemporary sources (i.e., the story may be a modern fabrication as seemingly nobody cites Peter much before the U.S. Bicentennial or even later) and besides, it was the Gobrecht silver dollar coinage that is typically cited as Peter lived and died in the U.S. Mint in the 1830's, not the 1850's.



BTW, it is unlikely that the Bird on display in the Philadelphia Mint today is the actual Peter. Dead bird mounted in 1836??? You gotta take these things with a grain of salt.



oly

Yes, nothing everything is provable so many years on. Our forum member villa66 did mention one of the discrepancies in the Peter story.

Phil.

On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:47:31 -0700 (PDT), sgt23
wrote:

On Sep 30, 6:54*am, Ice Torch wrote:
Can anybody add to this list:

1] Buffalo Nickel - Black Diamond
2] Flying Eagle cent - Peter the Mint Bird
3] Australian ram shilling - Uardry 0.1 (a.k.a. Hallmark)
4] St Helena + Ascension five pence - Jnathan the giant tortoise

See also:http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/ind...c,17643.0.html

Phil.

I couldn't find any other animals on coins with known names. I figured
Liberia may have made a few coins like the above.

Ireland has issued coins with several animals pictured including
these: http://www.joelscoins.com/images/irelandset7r.jpg
http://www.joelscoins.com/images/irelandset7r.jpg




--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

On Oct 2, 9:56*am, tony cooper wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:47:31 -0700 (PDT), sgt23

wrote:
On Sep 30, 6:54*am, Ice Torch wrote:
Can anybody add to this list:

1] Buffalo Nickel - Black Diamond
2] Flying Eagle cent - Peter the Mint Bird
3] Australian ram shilling - Uardry 0.1 (a.k.a. Hallmark)
4] St Helena + Ascension five pence - Jnathan the giant tortoise

See also:http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/ind...c,17643.0.html

Phil.

I couldn't find any other animals on coins with known names. I figured
Liberia may have made a few coins like the above.

Ireland has issued coins with several animals pictured including
these: *http://www.joelscoins.com/images/ire...elandset7r.jpg

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

I believe he meant coins with famous animals on them.