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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2829742, member: 82322&quot;][ATTACH=full]666772[/ATTACH] </p><p>PANTIKAPAION AE Tetrachalkon, 21mm, circa 314-310 BC.</p><p>Obv: Head of old Pan right.</p><p>Rev: ΠΑΝ; Legend around forepart of griffin left, sturgeon below.</p><p>Anokhin <i>Bosporus</i> 111.</p><p><br /></p><p>In <i>The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times</i> Adrienne Mayor suggests the features of the griffin were inspired by fossil dinosaurs.&nbsp; This Pantikapaion coin depicts a griffin with a dinosaur-like neck spine similar to the neck on Bing&#039;s example from Phokaia.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has nice relief.&nbsp; A few years ago I took a class in NYC by Gerald Marks on producing decent 3D images using an ordinary flatbed scanner.&nbsp; I brought along this coin and scanned it.&nbsp; If you have red/green 3D glasses please use them for the following images:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]666773[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]666774[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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