This is one creepy looking coin.

But I love it. Facing portrait, silver, tiny, and has the little crayfish on the reverse. I won it in an auction for my first auction win!

Thrace, Apollonia Pontika, late 5th-4th centuries BC. AR Drachm (13mm, 2.86g, 7h). Facing gorgoneion. R/ Anchor; A and crayfish flanking. Topalov, Apollonia 45; SNG BM Black Sea 160–1. VF

Anyone else want to share a creepy gorgoneion?

 

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Cool OP coin. I love it. I may have one to share.


Sallent's Creepy Little Gorgoneion Baby

 

Nice!!

 

Congrats on your first auction win! A bit nerve-wracking, aren't they? (auctions, that is-- although the gorgons are pretty freaky ).

I have one of the general type, a slip of the bidding finger while distracted on a Skype call . Oops. It's grown on me though


THRACE, Apollonia Pontika
Mid-late 4th century BCE
AR drachm, 10 mm, 3.2 gm
Obv: Facing gorgoneion
Rev: Upright anchor; A to left, crayfish to right
Ref: Topalov, Apollonia p. 348, 11

 

Great coin @wrappedinsky. I really like the facing gorgoneion types but none for me yet. Hopefully soon. @TIF for a slip of the finger that's one nice coin!

 

Yeah, I was lucky. The lot closed as my finger landed on bid, and the next coin came up-- I didn't even know what I'd won or what it cost until I reviewed the closed lots! Thank goodness it wasn't a 4-figure coin, and it's something I don't mind owning

 

Etruria, Populonia (3rd Century BC), Silver 20-Asses. 8.34g.
Obverse: facing head of Medusa (the Etruscans called her Metus), XX below
Reverse: usually blank, but this one has a faint incuse showing the XX and rim of an obverse. (And I have no clue how that would happen!)
Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage Series 52.126 (#1219) (O20) is said to be this coin. Ex
Baldwin, auction 98, May 2016, lot 551.

This coin was sold in the 1957 sale of the Adolphe Menjou collection. He was a Hollywood actor and the best-dressed-man in America. It is doubtful it ever belonged to him though.

 

Ya gotta love these

 

Wow, I take it back: Mine's not "creepy" at all compared to the ones you guys are posting! Mine is actually river-nymph-of-Larissa pretty!

"Slip of the finger." Oops. Got a new coin. What are the odds? The moral of the story: Stay away from the spirits when checking out an auction. Or not?...LOL

 

Here's one with pointy teeth. I bought it because it was creepy.

 

An uncanny portrait of my former Mother in Law. Amazing, and scary!

 

I hope she doesn't read your post. She'll come and get you.

 

Nice Etrurian XX Asses @Ed Snible !

We have the same die crack...



Etruria Populonia 3rd C BCE AR 20 As 8.1g Metus Blank HN 152


Have another Gorgon that I thought was pretty cool:


Ionia Klazomenai 480-400 BC AR Drachm Pentobol 3.5g 13mm Forepart winged boar r gorgoneion incuse sq Cf SNG Copenhagen 12 Rare

 

Nice.
I'll add this to the pile on

 

Here is one I picked up a few months ago.

 

Congrats on your cool new OP-score ... but be careful with this coin-type (they are often faked)

So much so, that I spent pretty much the same amount to have my humble example authenticated (at least I have piece of mind) ... plus, the Sear certificate may help my inheritor sell the coin?

 

Steve - Yours is an Apollo type rather than a Gorgon type.

 

Mine either . It just looks like an old matron with curlers in her hair

 

I found another CREEP in my collection...


SICILY Kamarina Æ Onkia 13mm 1.5g 420-405 BC Gorgoneion tongue - KAMA owl r lizard in claw pellet in ex SNG München 411

 

Nice coins all. Seeing images like this encourages me to switch over to collecting Greeks. All I have right now are diadachoi coins of Alexander's successors, Seleucids, Ptolemies, Bactria, and a couple I can't identify.