If you're into evil you're a friend of mine

Neither of my Medusa/Gorgoneion coins looks particularly evil, I'm afraid.

Thrace, Apollonia Pontika, AR Drachm, ca. 450-400 BCE. Obv. Upright anchor with large flukes and curved stock; “A” [for Apollonia] to left and crayfish to right between flukes and stock / Rev. Facing gorgoneion (Medusa), wavy hair parted in middle, 16 thin, open-mouthed snakes around head as additional hair or crown, puffy cheeks, mouth open, tongue protruding (but not extending below chin), all within shallow incuse. Goldsborough Type 3 [Goldsborough, Reid, Apollonia Pontika Drachms (see https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http://medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html), Catalogue of Types]; Seaby 1655 var. (crayfish to left, A to right) [Sear, David, Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe (Seaby 1978); Topalov 41-42 [Topalov, Stavri, Apollonia Pontika: Contribution to the Study of the Coin Minting of the City 6th - 1st c. B.C., Catalogue of Apollonia Coins, 7th-1st c. B.C. (Sofia, 2007) (English Translation, Kindle edition)]; BMC 15 Mysia 8-10 [Wroth, Warwick, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia (London, 1892) at pp. 8-9]; SNG.BM.159; see also id. Nos. 154-158 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea (London, 1993)] [online ID SNGuk_0901_0159 ]. 14 mm., 2.96 g., 3 h.


Roman Republic, L. Plautius Plancus, AR Denarius, 47 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Facing head of Medusa with coiled snake on either side of face [bankers’ marks to left of mouth], L. PLAVTIVS below / Rev. Winged Aurora flying right, holding palm frond and conducting the four horses of the sun, PLANCVS below. RSC I Plautia 15, Crawford 453/1a, Sydenham 959, Sear RCV I 429, BMCRR Rome 4004. 18 mm., 4.0 g. RRDP die matches: Schaefer Binder 9, p. 185-0, Die Type XXVI.

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In this version, Medusa WON, as she ripped Perseus' head off...

(She is laying on the ground laughing.)


Pontos Amisos Mithradates VI 109-89 BC AE 28 Athena Perseus Medusa Head Body

 

Oh, satyrs are evil. But just remember there's two sides to evil... just like a coin
And no jokes about him showing his hole, please

THRACE. Thasos. Obol (Circa 411-350).
Obv: Satyr in kneeling-running stance right, holding kantharos.
Rev: ΘAΣIΩN.
Amphora.
SNG Copenhagen 1031.
Condition: Near extremely fine.
Weight: 0.62 g.
Diameter: 11 mm.
Holed. Ex Savoca

 

I have to go back a little further...



France, Feudal. Berri-Deols (county). Raoul VII (or VI), AD 1160-1176. BI Denier (18mm, 1.06g, 8h). Obv: + RADVLFVS; Cross pattée. Rev: + DEDOLIS; Pentalpha; annulet in center. Ref: Boudeau 277 (Raoul VI); Roberts 4411. Ex Triskeles.

 

blood stain from last owner.


Zombie Apollo.