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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3760277, member: 91461&quot;][ATTACH=full]1007458[/ATTACH]</p><p>Yet again we find ourselves in the midst of the Ghouls<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie63" alt=":lurking:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, Witches<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and Undead<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie106" alt=":zombie:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ready to slit each others bloodless throats at a moments notice<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":jimlad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Though, enough about US politics<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> it&#039;s the season of the WITCH, BABY!!! Time to celebrate all things spooky, ooky, cooky and macabre...ooky<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>In last years edition of CTGBITN we had plenty of blood curdling scares and terrors! If you would like to catch some serious fun and nightmare fodder check it out:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night.324528/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night.324528/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-that-go-bump-in-the-night.324528/</a></p><p>This year I will save you the history lesson on &quot;all <i>ghouls</i> day&quot; and get right to what you are all here for, THE VIOLENCE<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie78" alt=":punch:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />...I mean, the coins. Yes, of course, the coins<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I started last years Creepshow off with one of Vlad &quot;The Impaler&quot; Tsepish (That is the real life Dracula<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie95" alt=":vamp:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> for those with virgin necks) Grandpappys. So why not start this year off with his other one?!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.yVL02roeIScwtyTAwjNaAgHaH2&amp;pid=Api&amp;rs=1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>(The only reputed portrait of &quot;Dracula&quot; supposedly copied from an original painted during his lifetime, 1428–1477, or should I say, deathtime<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ironically named, Alexander &quot;The Good&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007493[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Alexandru cel bun (Alexander the Good) </u></b></p><p>Half gos type 4. 11.7 mm diameter, ? g, copper or billon</p><p><u>Obverse</u> Moldavian coat of arms: urus head bearing a five ray star between its horns, the uneven ray pointing down, waning crescent at left and five petal rose at right, the odd petal pointing down (heraldic positioning Reverse shield split vertically; three bars at right and five fleurs-de-lis at left arranged 2-2-1 (heraldic positioning); over the shield the Moldavian urus having at heraldic left a waning crescent (in the missing portion of the coin a five petal rose); partially visible outer pearl circle.</p><p>Secret Saturnalia gift</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one that, most certainly, was inspired by one posted in last year&#039;s CTGBITN (so I hope to see many more this year). Though, this coin wont go bump...it will go BITE!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007489[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007583[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(Don&#039;t bring fangs to a stinger fight)</p><p><b><u>CARIA, Mylasa(?). </u></b></p><p>Circa 450-400 BC. AR Obol (7mm, 0.63 g, 6h). Facing forepart of lion / Scorpion, tail to right. SNG Kayhan 934-8; SNG Copenhagen (Cyprus, etc.) 379 very fine</p><p><br /></p><p>As most of us CT zombies know, Medusa is not the only Gorgon on the block. She had 2 sisters! The daughters of Echidna and Typhon had 3 girls: Medusa, Taylor Swift&nbsp; and Miley Cyrus.. I mean Stheno and Euryale (easy mistake to make).</p><p>I was admittedly over joyed to add such a nice Gorgon to my collection, one with the obligatory snake hair, fangs and thanks to wear, no eyes!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007490[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120811231053/warriorsofmyth/images/3/3d/Gorgon-monster-1-.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>THRACE, Apollonia Pontica</u></b></p><p>After 450 BCE. AR Reduced Drachm (14.38 MM 2.31 gm). Head of Gorgon facing, tongue protruding / Anchor with crayfish and A at sides. SNG.BM.162. aXF</p><p><br /></p><p>Very much LOVE the fact that with just a little cropping and a ridiculous cover up for a hole in the coin (debating on removing whatever that silly plug is) that it looks like the rat is escaping a sewer and running into a spider&#039;s web!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007474[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007481[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ti. Quinctius. </b>112-111 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.59 g, 7h). Rome mint. Laureate but of Hercules left, seen from behind, wearing lion skin draped across back and with club over shoulder / Two horses galloping left, with rider (<i>desultor</i>) on the nearer horse; rat to lower left. Crawford 297/1a; Sydenham 563; Quinctia 6.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like my new Constantius II suffers from <b>exophthalmos, </b>that&#039;s bulging eyes and not one of my favorite Greeks, Antigonus Monophthalmus (sorry @ominous1).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007473[/ATTACH]</p><p><img src="https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.wGrsrme1ru5XK88hiSBRkQHaE7&amp;pid=Api&amp;rs=1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Constantius II </u></b></p><p>AD 337-361. Antioch Follis Æ 15mm., 1,95g. D N CONSTANTIVS P F AVG, rosette-diademed head right / VOT XX MVLT XXX within wreath, mintmark: SMAN?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex-Savoca</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]3RJoLDFtpqU[/MEDIA]</p><p>So, to quote my old pall the Crypt Keeper, &quot;Boils and Ghouls&quot; please share all the coins that will keep your CT friends and fam up at night or for those of us that are creatures of the night, to keep us up in the early hours![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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