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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4592980, member: 110350&quot;]I think the date of 470-450 BCE is much too early for your coin, for the simple reason that you can see that the Medusa is on the obverse (convex side) and the anchor is on the reverse (concave side), and that switch didn&#039;t happen until about 400 BCE.&nbsp; I also think the Medusa -- with her &quot;hair&quot; looking like it&#039;s in curlers! -- looks something like Goldsborough&#039;s Type 13, although perhaps it&#039;s more of a &quot;transitional&quot; type from the earlier, open-mouthed, more puffy-cheeked versions:[ATTACH=full]1137250[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I&#039;m pretty sure it is a drachm rather than a diobol: all or most of the Apollonia Pontika diobols depicted Apollo, not Medusa. As Goldsborough states:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I believe that with Types 14 through 16, Medusa is beginning to morph into Apollo, which isn&#039;t fully realized until the smaller Apollonia Pontika diobols. With the diobols, Medusa&#039;s snaky hair transforms into Apollo&#039;s spiked hair or laurels, and his tongue is firmly in his mouth.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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