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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7974215, member: 91461&quot;]I&#039;ll match your gorgon pumpkin with a new addition to my Perseus holding Medusa&#039;s severed head:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1383404[/ATTACH]</p><p>Pontos. Amisos 85-65 BC.</p><p>Bronze Æ</p><p>29mm., 17,68g.</p><p>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.</p><p>very fine</p><p>HGC 7, 238. Purchased from Dara October 2021</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And another infidel crusaders severed head:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1383407[/ATTACH]</p><p>Anatolia &amp; al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan, (AH 580-597 / AD 1184-1200).</p><p>Dirham Bronze (32 mm 12.59 g)</p><p>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, &#039;Nur al-Din Atabeg&#039; in Kufic.</p><p>Rev: In inner field, &#039;al-Nasir li-din / Allah Amir / al-Mu&#039;minin&#039;; in inner margin, &#039;al Malik al-Afzal &#039;Ali wa al-Malik al Zahir Ghazi bin al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf&#039;; in outer margin, &#039;Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan Malik Diyarbakr bin il-Ghazi bin Artuq duriba sannah sitt wa tis&#039;in wa khamsami&#039;a&#039;; all in Kufic.</p><p>Spengler &amp; Sayles 36.1. Purchased from Savoca October 2021</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And just to show that I&#039;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!:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1383623[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1383405[/ATTACH]</p><p>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[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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