HORSES on Ancient Greek & Roman COINS including Races, Chariots & Pegasus

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http://www.trustedancientcoins.com/horses-on-ancient-coins/amp/ for article to the video showing the coins and where to buy them on eBay.Guide by Ilya Zlobin, of eBay store Authentic Ancient Greek Roman Coins and I wrote this guide for you to get educated about the subject of the various depictions that were done on ancient coins of horses. Horses were important to the ancient people. The coins shown here show various rulers on horseback, horses of various types and motifs. Along with the various gods and goddesses such as Zeus and Apollo, horses were a popular subject on both ancient Greek and Roman coins. In the pictures and descriptions below, you can see just some of the ancient coins depicting horses that were minted. Part of them were NGC Certified, others provided with a lifetime guarantee of authenticity, by me, Ilya Zlobin. You can learn a lot from this article and see some of the coins by clicking the pictures or links below. This video is designed to teach people about the types of ancient Greek and Roman coins that depicted the horse. This video and article linked above gives you one step further as it includes various types of chariots such as biga (2 horse chariot) the triga (three horse chariot) and quadriga (four horse chariot). From various Roman emperors such as Augustus, Septimius Severus, Geta, Caracalla, Marcus Aurelius and so many more were depicted heroically on horseback. It seems that more recent rulers have adopted this tradition as we still see heroic horse mounted statues of various heroes. There is a coin with Alexander the Great here that features his portrait and him on his legendary horse Bucephalus, whom after dying in India area got a city named after it called Bucephalia. Alexander the Great loved his horse and wound up taming it as it was wild and beautiful horse. Various ancient Greek cities such as those from ancient Sicily, Aeolis, Thessaly, Macedonia and many more had an appreciation for horses including the tactical advant