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Post your "critter" coins in honor of Bailey the dog, who passed away this morning
lordmarcovan
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It's always sad when a pet dies, particularly after 15 years. But old Bailey had a good long life, and we've known it was coming for a while. He was frail, blind from cataracts, and deaf, though he kept his appetite and keen sniffer to the end. It was just his time to go. We didn't think he'd last out 2014, but he did, and he spared us the difficult decision of having to do that heart-wrenching final trip to the vet. Lenee found him in the kitchen this morning. 
We got him in the summer of 2000 from Marcie Swoveland, (Michael/Aethelred's first wife, who herself passed on a few years ago), so if you'll pardon a little bit of saccharine, I have this fond mental picture of Bailey jumping into her lap, up there in Heaven.
'Bye, old buddy.
Good dog.
We got him in the summer of 2000 from Marcie Swoveland, (Michael/Aethelred's first wife, who herself passed on a few years ago), so if you'll pardon a little bit of saccharine, I have this fond mental picture of Bailey jumping into her lap, up there in Heaven.
'Bye, old buddy.
Good dog.
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I don't have critter coins handy at the moment, but here are a couple medals I have uploaded on the bucket.
Here are a couple pictures of my old Jackie. She died last spring after her osteosarcoma got to be too much. She was two days shy of her thirteenth birthday.
this is her last photo, she just got too tired and the pain was not being controlled anymore. She was the sweetest dog ever.
Ive always been partial to cats so heres a coin and lazy cat (poky) picture of one that dies some years ago she slept like a human
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Jackie was a cutie. Whippet?
Surprised nobody's posted any Irish coins yet, particularly the 6d. What other "doggie" coins are there? Surely there are some, though I can't think of any others offhand. (Except modern NCLT, perhaps.)
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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I had only one dog, a stray I adopted when I was maybe eight. It was a little crazy and my Dad ended up getting rid of him but I was still pretty attached to a puppy that was really my own.
The only coin that I think is appropriate here is the one depicting the return of Odysseus as a beggar to ward off the suitors of Penelope, his long suffering (assumed widow) wife.
Argos
Like Argos, LM, Bailey awaits you on your return, whenever that may be.
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Here is another medal, and then one coin I found a picture of, a Somaliland 20 (can't remember the denomination). There is a nice husky type dog on a Norwegian coin, but I don't have a picture.
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
It's so hard to loose a good buddy.
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The Celtic coin with the sleeping dog is neat. Knowing how abstract Celtic coins of that period can be, it's interesting to see how recognizable it is as a dog, and not some Picasso-esque mass of swirls and dots. Some of their gold "horse" coins are really neat looking, but calling the design a "horse" is sort of a stretch, if you know what I mean. (Boy, I sure wanted to dig one of those gold horsies when I was in England. We did detect on a field where a hoard of them had been found. I found some cool coins there, but no horsies. Somebody else dug one a couple days after I left.)
All three of us send our condolences.
Macedonia Dinar 1997 - Macedonian Shepherd Dog
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Ireland Sixpence 1953 - Irish Wolfhound
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Here's a dog coin in Bailey's honor.
Roman Republic, C. Postumius
74 BCE, Rome
AR denarius, 18.74 mm, 3.6 gm
Obv: bust of Diana right, bow and quiver over shoulder
Rev: hound running right, spear below; C. POSTVMI, TA in exergue
Ref: Crawford 394/1a
Taler Custom Set
Ancient Custom Set
I buried him in the back yard with a big bag of his favorite treats "Temptations" and a buck worth
of silver, a 1934 s and a 1964 p half dollar so he'd have first class travel to heaven, the next day
a flock of seagulls circled our house, were about 40 miles inland, I have seen seagulls before but it
is uncommon, so I know he made it.
Bailey will always and forever reside within your heart.
Steve
here's a picture of my cat, Molly.
And Fred, the "silversmith" cat!
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With Bailey gone, we were down to 13 animals.
13? That wouldn't do. So for superstitious reasons, and to cheer everybody up, we just got Tipper from the Humane Society.
So now Shinnick's Funny Farm is back up to its quota of fourteen.
(3 dogs, 9 cats, 2 guinea pigs.)
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Awesome!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Could not find a coin with a dog but here is a horse
This critter walked in the shop today. Silver. 22.3 g. approx. About 38 to 40 mm. Thin planchet.
Not certain what kind of animal it is, but it looks wounded. Sorry for your loss. I'm at a loss, too.