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Message:: [QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 5331673, member: 99456"][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] - a useful post with good information and discussion.  Here's my unusual Pontika drachm, which has a feature, "sea horse", below the anchor on the left, that is not a match for any of the known fakes (Type I).  Having no specific expertise in these coins, I am ambiguous about this coin without expert review given features like : sharp crayfish, little forehead, deep anchor groove, reasonably well centered. On the positive side: one row of beads, six legs, the patina is a natural grey, nose falls below the plane, coin doesn't rock, and I'd call it comic-demonic.[ATTACH=full]1225473[/ATTACH]Thrace, Apollonia Pontika, circa 480-425 B.C BC, AR Drachm (12.8mm, 3.38g, 11h), light Thraco-Macedonian standardObv: Upright anchor with large flukes and curved stock.  An additional symbol of crab viewed from above left between the fluke and the stock, the letter A rightRev: Full-face Gorgon’s head in the archaic Ionian style with a low narrow forehead, projecting eyebrows and eyes, a short flat nose, abnormally open mouth, long teeth and tongue.  Instead of hair there are snakes with thin bodies.  The image in a concave circle.Ref: Topalov 41 or 42?, auction house attribution was SNG BM 153Note: I am even a bit ambiguous about which side is obverse and which reverse - I think I have it right as photographed. Other thoughts on the "sea horse" or the coin in general?[/QUOTE]