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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2791339, member: 82322&quot;]There is a 5 as Medusa/blank type.&nbsp; I have seen pictures of it, but have never seen one in person.&nbsp; The 20 as piece can be found occasionally.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]648391[/ATTACH]</p><p>Etruria, Populonia (3rd Century BC), Silver 20 Asses, 8.34g.</p><p>Obverse: Facing head of Metus (Medusa), hair bound with a diadem, °XX° below, rev blank.</p><p>Reverse: usually blank, but this one has a faint brockage showing the XX and rim of another example.</p><p>EC Series 52.126 (1219) (O20; this coin although the photo doesn&#039;t match); HN Italy 142.</p><p>irregular flan, die-break on obverse as usual for this issue</p><p>ex Adolphe Menjou collection, Kreisberg &amp; Schulman, New York, 25-26 January 1957, lot 2765/6 (part)</p><p>Baldwin, auction 98, May 2016, lot 551 (The Property of an Antiquary)</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was sold in the 1957 sale of the Adolphe Menjou collection. He was a Hollywood actor and the best-dressed man in America. It is doubtful it ever belonged to him though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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