Cultural appropriation...

Cultural appropriation (or imitations) has happened all throughout history (in both positive and negative form). Can you post some representation of cultural appropriations in coins? I'll start off with this. This is typically looked at in the positive form as it is a minority culture (German) taking cultural elements from a dominate culture (Roman):

Roman Imperial: Constantius II (337-361 CE) Æ Centenionalis, Contemporary Imitation (Mattingly pl. xviii, 16 for type)
Obv: Rosette-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: Soldier standing left, spearing fallen horseman

Here is another one:

Salduquds: Izz al-Din Salduq (1129-1168 CE) AE Fals, NM, ND (Album-1890)
Obv: Two standing figures with the one on the right holding a patriarchal cross on three steps in his right hand. This may be the Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus on the left and St. George on the right, but it could equally well be the Emperor Manuel I Comnenus and St. Theodore on the right.
Rev: Arabic legend on four lines - السلطان المعظم مسعود بن محمد عز الدين صادق بن علي (The Mighty Sultan Mas‘ud ibn Muhammad ‘Izz al-Din Salduq ibn ‘Ali)

Citing the Western Seljuq overlord Mas'ud, who ruled 1134-1152

Have a nice day and health.

I have only a slightly supplementary opinion on this. I know that professionally you are at a much higher level than me. However, I live in a place where within a distance of 30 km. in all directions are the tombs of the "Celts" and in them coins imitating the first Greek coins.
What a difference of opinion or rather an addition:
I see the need for coins in the barter trade among the Celts in Central Europe -rather than culture and perfect coin design so when they came back from fighting from Daddy Alexander the Great I think Fillip II. ( he invited them and hired them as paid military units ). After returning home, they brought real coins however, they continued to pay traders with them and got the common need to make new ones.
Therefore, they were not interested in culture - story and depiction, but only a means of exchange as a much needed thing.

Dad of Philip II. Alexander the Great's son thinks he was the Olympic winner of the Horse Riding Games-And compare Greek old coins and his horses and, conversely, look at the horses that the Celts put on imitations.

And I would also like to lead a longer opinion, I will only shorten it : Do you know why 700 possible 800 years later the Slavs did not have coins here where I live?
Last week, an archaeologist said,, The ancient Slavs lived like Hippies and did not feel the need to pay for anything and did not need to buy slaves,,
which is then an imitation and how to recognize it?


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( I still haven't learned to shorten this link, maybe someone will send me instructions)

Regards Ivan

oh boy...
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1109.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2356.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces23120.html

etc, etc.

Citeer: "Mr. Midnight"​oh boy...
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1109.html
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2356.html
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces23120.html
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​etc, etc.

​this is stupid, people look at it as "appropriation", but I see it as honouring Native American Culture on coins, they could be more realistic and historically accurate but its better than nothing.

As I indicated earlier, there are positive and negative ways of viewing "appropriations". While I agree to a certain extent with the addition of Indian depiction on coins can be viewed as a positive, you also need to understand the Western Expansion and the Indian Wars during the same period when it was issued in the US!

here are a few coins which I think show otherwise...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9953.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces99699.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces262200.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces262200.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces83293.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces193553.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces274872.html

and I know that a lot of the coins made in the US during dark periods in there history, I still think that the almost all the popular American coins depict native Americans. Point is people love the design for the art and don't like them for any form of supremacy or pity over others. People learn through coins and that can be good history like the war nickel or bad history like the stone mountain half dollar.

@Quant-Geek, to your post of July 12 on appropriation of Byzantine coin design by an Islamic state, I would add that the figure on the right could also be St. Demetrius, another Eastern soldier saint portrayed in a similar way as St. Theodore.