Ancient => Medusa, Medusa ... hey, dougsmit said that I should buy 'em all!!

Really like the obverse of the coin. But both sides and coins looks good. I'm still searching for a coin from Pontos so I don't have any.

 

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This is my only Pontos coin and one which I love and never get tired showing:

Amisos, Pontos AE20
OBV: Head of youthful Dionysos right, wreathed with ivy
REV: Thyrsos leaning against cista mystica draped with panther skin; AMISOU below
Struck at Amisos, 85-65 BC
8.8g, 21mm
SNG BM Black Sea 1199-1200

 

That's a winner, Bing. Wow!

 

Definitely a nice coin and well photographed.

 

Yup this is awesome! I never get tired of seeing it. Just stunning there my friend.

 

Great coins everyone! Steve - I'm liking the Kirk avatar :thumb:

 

Steve, love the no head look, Gorgan shield Rocks, Jw, great coin awesome details, Chris is that your goat, awesome..:thumb:

 

Medusa was supposed to be a female, but you would not know it from my example:

Perseus stands over a beheaded body. On most examples the body is off the flan or somehow not clear. On this one, it is fulland the neck truncation is clear. Take a look at the body. It is naked (the left leg of Perseus is strategically placed). The body has a broad chest and, if we didn't know who it was supposed to be, we would consider it the muscled body of an powerful athlete or warrior. There does not seem to be anything female about it.

 

Medusa was originally envisioned as more of a monster and less of a female on many ancient reliefs and vase-paintings.

 

Actually, that is Jerry's goat.

Valentinian: Very nice. I've been watching for one that 1. has the body on flan, and 2. is affordable.

 

What am I doing with my images that makes them appear smaller in the thread than the images other members post? They enlarge nicely, but start out small.

 

For a while I wondered the same thing.

When you drag the photo to the attachments box. With the photo selected click "insert inline" and it will be in the same plane as the text, instead of an attached thumbnail. Although if the image is really or small or really big it might default to thumbnail.(not sure?)

 

When I upload a combined obverse/reverse image, it shows up like yours in the thread. Kinda small. But when I upload individual images for post obverse and reverse, they are the larger images you see in my posts.