Rams, sheep and goats on coins

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Algeria. FAO.

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Australia.

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Falkland Islands, 20 pence, 1982.

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Somalia. 10 senti, 1976.  Lamb.

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Lesotho, 10 lisente, 1979.  Goat.

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Slovenia, 5 tolar, 1992.

A very daring design, that gives most of the space to the goat's horns.

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A chamois from Andorra.

This coin was issued for collectors only and does not circulate.

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Isle of Man. The famous four-horned Loghtan ram.

Yes, a ram, even though it looks like a goat, but it does have a fleece.

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St Thomas and Prince, 2 dobras, 1977.  Goat and kid.

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Speaking of goats.....

Anyone know if Amalthea was ever shown on a coin?

Dale

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Oh Dale, sometimes you are such a lazy bum.   Go through the list of records/coins on the left:

http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=Amalthea&view_mode=1&cac=1&cng=1&fac=1&language=en#4

Christian

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I am aren't I      but if I do it all myself then there is no conversation only dialog 

Impressive goat design.

I like the story of Amalthea and like to ponder exactly what it signified to the population of the day (if anything) other than the obvious literal aspects.

Dale

Oh Dale, sometimes you are such a lazy bum.   Christian

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I like the story of Amalthea and like to ponder exactly what it signified to the population of the day (if anything) other than the obvious literal
Dale

So what did you conclude from your ponderings, Dale?

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No conclusions, only more questions.

Consider this:
Zeus, the big boss god is raised by a goat.  How is that more godly, elegant, siginificant, than say.......oh lets be wild here....how is that better than being raised by a she wolf? What is siginificant in being raised by a goat that is more godly than being raised by a wolf?  I don't know.  Surely the people wouldn't give the big boss god a more humble or lesser origin that the mere human founders of Rome...or would they.....

Dale

So what did you conclude from your ponderings, Dale?

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Do I detect a note of bitteness there? Your buddies who were raised by goats been giving you a hard time? (I've yet to work out the subtleties of the Texan hierarchy).

Goats are domesticated, wolves are wild, that's the only thing that occurs to me. The Greek god Pan had goat-like features, but he was transmuted into Satan by early Christian propagandists. But those early myths suggest that the ancients accepted an inter-relatedness with other mammals that the Victorian English found shocking, when Darwin first suggested it to them. There have also occasionally been modern tales of children raised by wild animals. Then there are the popular fictional tales of beasts helping humans, including the Hollywood "Lassie" films.