Post pics of coins with allegory!

At first I thought the angel in the coin was flipping me off.

I guess not.

At the almost-one-year anniversary:

BUMP  

Virtually every US coin ever minted.
And, dpashinny (how my mind says your name), here is where a die number would be on a Gothic (you'll also see a "WW".

@ZRS: I'll check. PS: my name is pronounced "dee-pi-tashny"

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Nice, especially as I have those last two myself.
I looked up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory and still not sure what it means. Just because an artist has made something nice how is someone looking at it supposed to know that it has hidden meaning ?
 Shame the topic title asks for coins only, as I have some French medallions that I think might be what is asked for - but as the last one above is a medallion (I have a bronze version), here are some of mine ...




EDIT: After adding all that, I knew the second one 'Le baiser au soleil' was a representation (i.e. what the topic is about, I think) of someone who has recovered from a certain medical illness, and I tried to look it up as I could not remember which illness (as I got the medal years ago and it does not say on it) and I found now this page ...
http://www2.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/img/?mod=a&orig=anm
 which shows it nearly halfway down on the right. Not only does it say it was for tuberculosis, but also says 'Allégorie d'après Abel Faivre' so I guessed right.  

 From that page this is that medal by itself http://www2.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/img/?do=serie&refphot=anmhaas0527&mod=a

Hello all,

In these times of trouble, both globally, worldwide, and locally (Numista world   ), I thought it could be a good idea to revive this little successful thread.
Images of success, victory (not always of democraty   ), republic, democraty, love,  etc. are often used by countries for image, propaganda, self pride. But not known personalities (as the Victoria portrait).

We can also try not to post twice the same image.

One of the numerous french variations aound the Republic/Liberty etc

 

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces688.html

André

Time to bump an old thread, why not?

OK, here are the recent Canadian coins . Allegory of Canada (copper, silver and gold versions):



and a series of silver coins with allegories that had been used on Canadian banknotes:

I like this one. Supposed to be France and Germany in 1913 ...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15148.html

Allegorical representation of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.

The best coin exhibit in the world!

Quote: "dptashny"​The best coin exhibit in the world!

​I second that!

Let's revive this old thread:
Vatican City 100 Lire, Ioannes Pavlvs II (John Paul II), KM# 146, 1979. Prudence (PRVDENTIA) sitting in a chair and holding mirror and diamond:

Prince Edward Island produced their only decimal coin in 1871, as they did not become a province of Canada until 1873.

The reverse incorporates the seal of the island with the Latin phrase "PARVA SUB INGENTI", meaning "The small beneath the great". The large oak tree represents England and the 3 young oaks represent the 3 counties of the island.

Just about every French and French colonial coin since 1870 can be considered 'allegorical' by reasonable definition; I choose to showcase this one because unlike most depictions of the Republic (Ceres, Marianne, etc) this allegorical figure is male; Mercury, to be exact (hence the winged helmet).