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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3810421, member: 82322&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp; I like the style of the little face.&nbsp; There should be a third snake, not visible on this example, as it is off the flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Margaret Thompson wrote, in 1941, “Aristion, returning back from a successful visit to Mithradates with ample promises and Pontic troops to back them, was acclaimed by the Athenians and elected <i>strategos</i> with full powers. The money which he struck in unison with Philon was stamped with the drinking Pegasos, an unmistakably Mithradatic symbol…. The Gorgoneion may be interpreted as a Pontic symbol or it may have been simply a revival of an old familiar Athenian device.”</p><p><br /></p><p>She continues “The Gorgoneion may be connected with pro-Mithradatic sentiments on the part of Niketes and Dionysios who, taking office during the last archonship of Medeios, could only express their partisanship by the choice of a symbol which was Mithridatic but which was also capable of an Athenian interpretation.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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