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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 25309797, member: 116882&quot;]Nice Gorgoneion coins!</p><p>My favorite facing gorgoneion heads are on the early coins of Neapolis. A stony wide-eyed stare, wrinkled nose, toothy grin with a big tongue and protruding ears only Medusa could love. I wonder if people were afraid of these coins or at least didn&#039;t try to steal them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my drachm:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1616848[/ATTACH]</p><p>Macedon, Neapolis </p><p>AR drachm 500-480 BC 4.08 g</p><p>O: facing gorgoneion head</p><p>R; quadripartite incuse square</p><p>SNG ANS 422</p><p><br /></p><p>I also like this less frightening version Motya AE:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1616849[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sicily, Motya</p><p>AE tetras 410-400 BC 7.19 g 22 mm</p><p>O: facing gorgoneion head</p><p>R: palm tree</p><p>Jenkins CPS I pl 23,8; Calciati 1[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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