Show your gorgoneion

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  1. Al Kowsky

    Al Kowsky Well-Known Member

    This handsome sardonyx cameo from the Cleveland Museum of Art, circa AD 200, depicts Septimius Severus & Julia Domna with a Gorgoneion.

    Cameo Septimius Severus and Julia Domna.jpg
     
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  3. Al Kowsky

    Al Kowsky Well-Known Member

    Here's a tet from Laodicea ad Mare of Septimius Severus sporting a Gorgoneion on his breastplate, AD 207-208, 14.37 gm, Prieur 1141.

    Prieur 1141 obv..JPG Prieur 1141 rev..JPG
     
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  4. Jay GT4

    Jay GT4 Well-Known Member

    And here is Domitian doing the same...
    Domitian_Tet_1978.jpg
     
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  5. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    MORE GORGON:

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    MAKEDON Philip III Arrhidaios 323-317 BCE Æ 1-2 Unit 17mm 4.2g Miletos mint Makedonwn shield Gorgoneion - Helmet bipennis K Price 2064


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    Indo-Greek Baktria Menander I Soter BC 155-130 AR Tet 26mm 9.6g Diad - Athena Alkidemos tbolt Gorgon shield SNG ANS 764-767


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    SICILY Kamarina Æ Onkia 13mm 1.5g 420-405 BC-OLDEST Gorgon tongue - KAMA owl r lizard in claw pellet in ex SNG Münch 411
     
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  6. Pavlos

    Pavlos You pick out the big men. I'll make them brave!

    My only gorgon so far:

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    Alexander III the Great Bronze Coin (320 B.C.) two chalkoi (quarter obol).
    Obverse: Macedonian shield, boss decorated with gorgoneion.
    Reverse: Macedonian helmet; B-A to left and right; double axe below left; K monogram below right.
    Mint: Miletus, Ionia. 320 B.C. Reference: Price 2064.
     
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  7. Jochen1

    Jochen1 Well-Known Member

    Mysia, Parion, 2nd - 1st century BC
    AE 22, 6.21g, 0°
    obv. Head of Gorgo with snakes and wings, facing
    c/m monogram in circular incus
    rev. ΠA - PI - ANΩN
    Eagle with spread wings, stg. r.
    monogram before, all within laurel wreath
    ref. BMC 69; SNG von Aulock 1330; SNG Paris 1404
    rare, about VF/F+
    parion_BMC69.jpg

    This coin is alive by the exceptional portait on the obv. Here the transition from the primordial grimacing and abhorrent Gorgo to the melancholic tantalized being of the late Hellenistic times is almost completed.
     
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  8. PeteB

    PeteB Well-Known Member

    I showed this in a previous thread, but nice medusa depiction:
    Gordian III. 238-244 AD. MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Æ (27mm, 12.52 gm, 7h). Obv: Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, wearing a sharp depiction of head of medusa and aegis. Rev: Zeus seated left, holding patera and scepter; eagle before. Varbanov 4133. HrHJ (2018) 8.36.1.1 (same dies). GordianIIINicopolisZeus.jpg
     
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  9. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    Boy-O, I do love all of the butterfaces in this post!
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  10. Valentinian

    Valentinian Well-Known Member

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    Sicily, Himera (a city on the middle of the north coast)
    "430-420 BC" (very early for copper).
    21 mm. 12.99 grams. (Remarkably thick at 5 mm)
    Gorgon head facing with tongue stuck out (but, otherwise almost a smile)
    Three dots (for the value)
    Sear Greek 1107. Hoover Sicily 467. Struck "430-420 BC"
     
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  11. octavius

    octavius Well-Known Member

    L. Plautius Plancus den. ( two heads are better than one) 3eEYF7wS8ZZkJ5qebi4GY6Sm9PnjiP.jpg 9808LG.jpg
     
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  12. Ed Snible

    Ed Snible Well-Known Member

    @Ryro What is the undertype of the countermark example?
     
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  13. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    That's the thousand penny question.
    I thought I had a pretty decent ID on the guy a while ago but am trying to track that down...
     
  14. alde

    alde Always Learning

    That pendant is spectacular.
     
  15. Ed Snible

    Ed Snible Well-Known Member

    I have recorded gorgoneion countermarks on bronze for Seleukid coins (Seleukos II and Antiochos II), Mithradates the Great's Pontic kingdom, Troas/Illion, Pamphylia/Side, and Cilicia/Rhosus. Wasn't sure if yours was one of those or not.
     
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  16. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    A good thread to resurrect. Here are a couple of my favourite gorgons:

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    Unusual to be able to see the face on these:
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  17. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    Thank you so much for the tip! I will have to cross check acsearch to see if I can figure what I'm seeing.
    I reshot the coin. The obverse certainly appears to be a male facing right. I think the first time I had the reverse upside down. It looks like someone sitting with Greek letters running along the left side.
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  18. Volodya

    Volodya Junior Member

    This is one of the few coins I regret not holding onto when I sold my Imperial collection a few years back.

    Phil Davis


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  19. Finn235

    Finn235 Well-Known Member

    The archaic and early classical Gorgoneion are some of my favorite design motifs, particularly for the superstitious belief that they would protect the bearer from evil while being carried.

    Thrace, Apollonia AR Drachm c. mid-5th c. BC
    Apollonia drachm gorgon anchor crayfish.jpg

    Another, slightly later
    Apollonia pontika hemidrachm gorgon anchor.jpg

    Mysia, Parion AR Hemidrachm, 4th century BC
    Mysia parion hemidrachm caduceus.jpg
     
  20. Victor_Clark

    Victor_Clark all my best friends are dead Romans Dealer

    Here are some where it is tougher to make out the Gorgon


    Hadrian
    A.D. 125- 128
    AR Denarius
    18mm 3.3gm
    HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS; bare head right; slight drapery on left shoulder.
    COS III; Minerva standing l., feet together, holding spear pointed downwards and round shield with gorgon[?].
    RIC II Rome 154

    Hadrian.jpg



    Marcus Aurelius
    A.D. 171-173
    Ӕ Sestertius
    M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVI; laureate head right.
    IMP VI COS III S-C; Roma seated left, holding Victory and spear, behind her shield with Medusa.
    RIC III Rome 1083

    Marcus Aurelius.jpg



    and on this coin is not clear, but I believe it is a Gorgon on the shield and maybe a thunderbolt on the cuirass

    Carus
    A.D. 282- 283
    Ӕ Antoninianus
    21x22mm 4.3gm
    VIRTVS CARI AVG; Radiate helmet and cuirassed bust left, spear over right and shield with gorgon (?) on left.
    PAX AVGG; Pax stg. left, holding olive branch and sceptre; B in left field.
    RIC Vii Lugdunum 14

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  21. Al Kowsky

    Al Kowsky Well-Known Member

    Finn235, Three great coins :woot:! The 1st one with a crayfish is special, the 2nd one is truly frightening :nailbiting:, & the 3rd one is rather amusing :).
     
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