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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7934709, member: 91461&quot;]Simply beautiful sculptor<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie16" alt=":artist:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I&#039;ve always fallen over myself for images that can give a portrayal of fabric in stone<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And what&#039;s up with us males projecting that every woman with a snake as being phallic?... though, sometimes coins like that make it hard to refute as she appears to be putting it to her lips <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie77" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[USER=118540]@sand[/USER] that Sicilian design reminds me of another Sicilian of mine,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372094[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372074[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372095[/ATTACH]</p><p>as well as one massive MONSTER from Olbia A</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372075[/ATTACH]</p><p>SKYTHIA Olbia - Face Proto Money</p><p>437-410 BC</p><p>Obv: facing gorgon&#039;s head. Rev: sea eagle flying right. 65.4 mm, 89.7 grams. Poor. Scarce.</p><p>Literature Sear 1682. Purchased from Timeline Auctions Feb 2021</p><p><br /></p><p>How about a rare, more archaic looking despite being later than the more common type, skull headed Ketos monster for our mash?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372425[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1372423[/ATTACH]</p><p>CARIA. Halikarnassos. Circa 460-440 BC. Hemiobol (Silver, 7 mm, 0.49 g). AΛ Head and neck of ketos to right. Rev. Eight-rayed star within incuse square. Apparently unpublished apart from Kagan &amp; Kritt p. 263, note 10 and pl. 47, 6. Well struck and clear; the second known example (see CNG e-auction 207, 2009, 193 - but legend incomplete). Very fine.</p><p>Purchased from Savoca Aug 2021[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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