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How many different animals have there been on US Coins?

TheNumishTheNumish Posts: 1,628 ✭✭
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Which animals have been used on US coins? There really aren't very many. Probably more different plants have been used. So far I have:
Eagle--most coins
Alligator--1999 Proof Platinum Eagles
Beaver--Albany and Wisconsin Halves
Horse-- LaFayette $1 and Stone Mountain
Buffalo--Nickel, Yellowstone and Buffalo $1
Buzzard--Flying Eagle Cent Just kidding on this one image


Sorry Adrian I don't think there's been an anaconda.



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  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    Bear-bay bridge.
    Cougar-vermont.
    Bull-spanish trail.
    Dog?-san diego.
    Calf-new rochelle.
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,148 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bear: Bay Bridge- SF/Oakland; California Diamond Jubilee
    Mermaid- Hudson NY Susquicentennial
    Calf- New Rochelle, NY
    Horse- Stone Mtn. Memorial, Lafayette $, 1982 wash 50c
    lion-like cat- VT Sesquicentennial
    Owl- US Sesqucent. Pan Pac
    Bison- Mt Rushmore 50th



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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    dolphin
  • TheNumishTheNumish Posts: 1,628 ✭✭
    Bear--California Half
    Cougar-- Vermont Half
    Bull?????????????? Which coin has that?
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,148 ✭✭✭✭✭
    placid... i had more than you image
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  • LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭
    What coin has a dolphin?
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    hippocampus (mythical) - on the panpac $2.5

    BTW the dolphin was on the panpac 50 octaginal
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's a badger on the Wisconsin comm
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So how many people are franitically looking through a redbook right now?
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Bear--California Half
    Cougar-- Vermont Half
    Bull?????????????? Which coin has that? >>



    Spanish trail. And oxen pulling the wagon on oregon trail.
    The vermont is really a catamount whatever that is image
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    and there's a whale on the hudson
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,148 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>So how many people are franitically looking through a redbook right now? >>



    I did... that's how i got so many! image
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  • MastaHankyMastaHanky Posts: 933 ✭
    I'm pretty sure that's a three-toed sloth or something on the Sacajawea dollar.

    (Just for the record, I saw a show on making the design for the Sacajawea dollar. The model who posed for Sacajawea was actually VERY attractive. I don't know what happened between her and the actual design, but it does not do her looks justice at all.)
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I mearly flipped through my collection imageimageimageimage Bwaaaaaaaaaahaahaahaa
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,200 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the most common; people.
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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    TomB,

    I'm glad you brought that up. Russ has been on several of the coins I'm trying to buy on Ebay like an animal.image
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  • TheNumishTheNumish Posts: 1,628 ✭✭
    Hey Tom B. I thought of that. It be fun to figure out how many people have been on US coins.


    I heard they are going to strike a Kennedy half with a little picture of Russ underneath the bust. Is that true?
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,200 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    Just make certain that if you wrestle them away from him that they don't stink like an animal!imageimage
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  • WhitewashqtrWhitewashqtr Posts: 736 ✭✭✭
    Horse - Delaware Quarter
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  • wayneherndonwayneherndon Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭
    Horse-Kentucky Quarter
    Some kind of bird-South Carolina Quarter
    Pelican-Louisiana Quarter
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  • mrdqmrdq Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭
    Dog... SBA




    i had to image

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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    oxen on the Oregon Trail
  • FlashFlash Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭
    Lion on the 1860 $5 Morman gold
    Beaver on 1849 Oregon gold
    Horse on 1850 Baldwin & Co. $10 gold
    Horse, Dear (?) and Bear (?) on 1849 Massachusetts & California Co. $5 gold
    Horse on 1985W Civil War Battlefield $5 commemorative

    And, of course, the most commonly depicted animal on U.S. coins.. the HUMAN.

    p.s. The "dog" on the San Diego commemorative half is actually a bear. image

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  • TheNumishTheNumish Posts: 1,628 ✭✭
    Owl $50 Pan Pac
  • Kejun99Kejun99 Posts: 81 ✭
    No one's answered the question ! How many different kinds of animals?

    Everyone is submitting names ! LOL Owls and Birds are not animals !

    So I'll guess ! 13?

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  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
    >! LOL Owls and Birds are not animals !

    Man, where did you go to school? Are owls and birds plants where you come from? They are not mammals but are most certainly animals.

    Everyone has missed the most obvious animal on the US coins -> Humans


  • Kejun99Kejun99 Posts: 81 ✭
    Have you ever heard the classification of "Fowl" And if your including Birds than why hasn't anyone mentioned the Eagle?

    Kenimage
    Ken
  • Kejun99Kejun99 Posts: 81 ✭
    OOps Sorry, Guess I spoke outta place.. Numish mentioned the Eagle 1st thing... so That will add the Fowl and more numbers !
    Kenimage
    Ken
  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    Isn't that a flamingo on bust coins.

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  • TheNumishTheNumish Posts: 1,628 ✭✭
    Man, where did you go to school? Are owls and birds plants where you come from? They are not mammals but are
    most certainly animals.

    Hey Clackamas,
    I just checked the rule book on the game 21 questions and on the first question, "Is it a plant, animal or mineral?" birds fall into the animal category. Guess I went to the school of long road trips!! imageimage
  • supercoinsupercoin Posts: 2,323 ✭
    Some sort of ugly little hapless fish about to be eaten by an eagle. 2002 Platinum Proof coins. And a bonus on the same coin -- some sort of bug that the fish is trying to eat.

    Unfortunately the way the coin is designed, it looks like a fish being ejected from a miniature volcano, about to be skewered by an eagle riding a broomstick. Sigh.
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  • Kejun99Kejun99 Posts: 81 ✭
    Supercoin !

    some sort of bug that the fish is trying to eat.


    Did you look at that bug and check it out for a possible tick ?




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  • mnmcoinmnmcoin Posts: 2,165 ✭
    Don't forget Kennedy...from some of the stories I have heard he was the biggest animal of them all...bdump bum!

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