Coins that go bump in the night Part IV: Ruined Druids & Bodily Fluids/post your spookies!

Happy to share my hallow-ed eyed pirate-kles win from earlier today Complete with eye pecking parrot reverse:

Cilicia, Tarsos, Obol AR, 400-350 BC.
Obverse: the bust of Heracles straight ahead (w/die break/eye patch )

Reverse: eagle standing left, on the head of a deer with large antlers
SNG Levante 229, SNG von Aulock 5424.
Weight: 0,66 gr
Diameter: 11 mm



More spookies are on thar way

 

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Gorgon pumpkin!

 

I'll match your gorgon pumpkin with a new addition to my Perseus holding Medusa's severed head:

Pontos. Amisos 85-65 BC.
Bronze Æ
29mm., 17,68g.
Helmeted head of Athena right, helmet decorated with griffin / AMIΣOY, Perseus standing facing, holding harpa and head of Medusa, at feet, body of Medusa, monograms to both sides.
very fine
HGC 7, 238. Purchased from Dara October 2021


And another infidel crusaders severed head:

Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan, (AH 580-597 / AD 1184-1200).
Dirham Bronze (32 mm 12.59 g)
Obv: Helmeted Turk seated cross-legged, wearing chain mail, holding sword horinzontally behind his head with his right hand and severed, helmeted head by the plume with his left hand; in field to left, 'Nur al-Din Atabeg' in Kufic.
Rev: In inner field, 'al-Nasir li-din / Allah Amir / al-Mu'minin'; in inner margin, 'al Malik al-Afzal 'Ali wa al-Malik al Zahir Ghazi bin al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf'; in outer margin, 'Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan Malik Diyarbakr bin il-Ghazi bin Artuq duriba sannah sitt wa tis'in wa khamsami'a'; all in Kufic.
Spengler & Sayles 36.1. Purchased from Savoca October 2021



And just to show that I'm not obsessed with severed heads on coins, oh wait, I am. But there are other spooky images on coins. Here is a big brained Caracalla (Elagabalus or Sev Al maybe) and a demonic, space alien, voodoo priestess Tyche!:


Caracalla ? (198-217). Mesopotamia, Edessa. Æ (17mm, 3.80g, 6h). Laureate head r. R/ Turreted head of Tyche l. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 205. Brown patina. Purchased from Dara October 2021

 

Gallia Belgia AE Potin:



This coin is from the 1st century BCE and apparently depicts a Druid priest and a wolf eating it's prey. It is sort of cute and spooky all in one.