I could post an Olbia dolphin but instead I will go with something more recent. [ATTACH] I'm not sure if this is a coin or not. The seller...
It certainly is a cool coin, and for looks I’d like to keep it the way it is. I have heard two schools of thought regarding the distilled water...
[ATTACH] I am struggling to understand the surfaces on this provincial bronze of Iconium depicting Nero and with the hero Perseus. The obverse...
I replied to the thread by accident. I couldn't figure out how to delete it. Now even the option to edit it is gone.
I haven't seen your bigfoot coin but what about another monster?...
[ATTACH] L · PLAV[TIV]S below, head of Medusa facing Classical Numismatic Group, e-auction 59, February 2003, lot 131. I didn't get it from the...
You should also consider getting an example from the Sarmatian Kingdom of the Steppes. Mitchener considered them imitations, but Mithradates The...
Perseus is almost always depicted on coins carrying the harpa and Medusa's head. (Occasionally on coins of Tarsos he is shown with only the...
[ATTACH]Mine does not have a clear portrait. It is a large (31mm) provincial of Koropissos in Cilicia. I bought it for the reverse, which shows...
[ATTACH] I don't think I can improve on the description written by Oliver Hoover: Diademed and radiate head of Antiochus IV r. Border of...
[ATTACH] I don't have your cool Dioscuri with wolf and twins. What I have is a very tiny 8mm imitative wolf and twins. The seller described it...
It is believed to be a snow leopard, but usually just called "beast". http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=40181
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=624968001&objectId=3071481&...
The little Corinth Pegasos/gorgons are really nice. They often come crystalized. Here is mine: [ATTACH]
Just got an email from NN. "Today we received the export license for your Invoice No. ... of Auction 44." They go on to write "The Antiquity...
That is surprising. I haven't seen any coins of Seriphos offered for sale in about a decade! Regarding the frog,...
Here is a Medusa/bull bronze of Seleukos I: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The bull is thought to illustrate an event from Seleukos' life. Appian wrote "He...
Probably I should show some other monsters. This Sasanian drachm imitation depicts a Sogdian-style winged camel. (For a better picture of one...
There are about six styles of teeth on Greek depictions of gorgons. One style is a few straight upper teeth, like you might see on a baby, in...
Here is a new acquisition I rather like. It's tiny, just 8mm, about the size of an aspirin. The inscription MAP is probably short for ΜΑΡΛΟΤΑΝ,...
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