Featured Coins that go bump in the night

I also have a Serapis (oh no, severed head) on this Maximin Daia,GENIO AVGVSTI, Alexandria folle:

 

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I am obsessed with these Medusa coins. If anyone had a spare they would like to part with please contact me.

This thread just tipped the scale into my desire to pick up ancient coin collecting!!!!

 

That's great @TylerH - Welcome to the Ancients Club!

 

Ooooh, I want one!! Looks like it might take a while. There are only two in ACsearch.

 

Scylla is pretty scary, especially to sailors.

 

I chose both obverses of helmeted Constantine and Herennius Etruscus, as well as Macrinus with reverse of the she-wolf resembling a panther that can suckle all Rome

 

The astronomical connections for All Hallows and the entire first week of November was the zenith culmination of the Pleiades at midnight in Northern latitudes. Hence the ancient European New Year and the change over to winter. Many people rooted in aboriginal Earth based teachings claim ancestry connected to the seven sisters and their mother Hathor in Egypt and numerous other aspects of the one goddess of goodness and womanhood and joy all over the globe. This includes the Hindu Aditi the divine mother of the Ashwins who are the twin dioscuri. The divine mother of all the gods-Kybele and Rhea and on and on. Here is her Greek form on a Roman provincial coin as Goddess of the crossroads, the triple faced Moon goddess Hecate. Later she was spun as the goddess of witchcraft and all the "dark magic" but that is was all part of the war against the Earth based wisdom traditions as the big religious movements wanted hegemony over the peoples.
GREEK COINS
Grade: F+ / F | Abbreviations
(2e -3e s. av. J-C). Petit bronze. Buste tourelé à droite d'Artémis, déesse de la cité. R/: hécate triforme debout. SNG Aulock 3475. 2,41 g. 15,35 mm.
GREEK COINS Phrygie. Apamée. (2e -3e s. av. J-C). Petit bronze F+ / F

Greek: city of Apameia in Phrygia
Bronze Assarion Severan period, 193-235 A.D.
AΠAMЄIA Turreted and draped bust of city-goddess to right.
CΩTЄIPA Hekate triformis: the left and right one holding torches in each hand; the middle one a phiale in her right hand.
Thanks @Ryro and everyone else for some great coins!

 

Many inexpensive Medusas from Amisos here are some listed: https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.as...cords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False

 

Just like a good slasher flick, ya gotta keep reviving the really spooky ones!

Ever seen a severed/floating skull in a fire???



Or a golden Gorgon?!?!


Before and after of the time when I told her she's cute but her sister is cuter! (Not my coin...sadly, obviously)

How about a Galba fouree reminiscent of ol Chop Top from the 2nd chainsaw massacre movie!?!?!



The goddess (I'm assuming this, as I've still not got an ID on the coin) certainly has a ghostly look about her as well...

 

Most of what I would post has been posted already in this thread...but what the heck, right!

Severed heads:

ROMAN REPUBLIC. M. Sergius Silus
AR Denarius, 19mm, 3.9g, 9h; Rome, 116-115 BC.
Obv.: Helmeted head of Roma right; ROMA and XVI monogram behind, EX•S•C before.
Rev.: Soldier on horseback rearing left, holding sword and severed Gallic head in left hand; Q M SERGI below, SILVS in exergue.


Maximinus II, Rome, Tetrarchy, AD 309-313
AE, follis, 4.96g, 21mm;12h; Antioch
Obv.: IMP C GAL VAL MAXIMINVS PF AVG; laureate head right
Rev.: GENO AVGVSTI; Genius standing left, holding head of Sol and cornucopiae; star left, A right
In Ex.: ANT

Zombie horse:

Zeugitana, Carthage, BC 300 - 264
AE, 4.78g, 19mm; 2h
Obv.: Head of Tanit left, wreathed in corn
Rev.: Horsehead right

This coin always made me think of the Cryptkeeper:



Septimius Severus, Nikopolis ad Istrum, AD 139-211
AE, 3.11g, 16.5mm; 2h
Obv.: AV KAI [CE] CEVHPOC, laureate head right
Rev.: NIKOΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟCICT; crescent and one star
Ref.: AMNG 1436v; Nikopolis BMC 17
Unsure why Wildwinds does not include the final C on the obv even though all the pictures they have include it. My coin includes it so the C is mentioned in the obv legend. Also, the [CE] is off flan.

 

Snakes!


Commodus; Philppopolis, Thrace; AD 180-192
AE, 4.07g, 18mm; 6h
Obv.: AY K? M?...-KOMOΔOC; laureate head right
Rev.: [Φ]ΙΛΙΠΠΟ[ΠOΛEITΩN]; Snake is bearded with two head fins


Septimius Severus, 193 - 211 AD
Æ 8 Assaria, 32mm, 15.31g, 8h; Thrace, Pautalia Mint.
Obv.: AV K A CEΠTI CEVHPOC ΠEP; Laureate head of Septimius right.
Rev.: OVΛΠIAC ΠAVTAΛIAC; Fourfold coiled serpent with erect head right.


Caracalla as Augustus, AD 211-217.
Æ30, 16.2g, 7h; THRACE, Serdica.
Obv.: AVT K M AVP CEVH ANTWNEINOC; Laureate head right.
Rev.: OYΛΠIAC CEΡΔIKHC; Hygieia standing right, feeding serpent in arms.


Hadrian, AD 117 - 138
AE as, 10.8g, 27mm; 6h; Rome mint, AD 128 - 132
Obv.: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS PP; laureate head right
Rev.: COS III, S C in fields; Salus, draped, standing right, feeding out of patera in left hand snake held in right hand


Maximianus, AD 286-305
AE, antoninianus, 23mm, 4.06g; 12h; Lugdunum, AD 290-294
Obv.: IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG, Radiate, cuirassed bust right
Rev.: SALVS AVGG; Salus standing right feeding serpent in arms
In Ex.: C


MYSIA, Pergamon. c. 166-67 BC.
AR Tetradrachm, 29mm 12.5, 12h; Cistophoric standard. Struck c. 104-98 BC.
Obv.: Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath.
Rev.: Bow case with serpents; above, KP above prytaneis monogram, civic monogram to left, serpent-entwined staff to right.

 

Gotta love the creepy die engraving on this coin.



Severed head.



Zombie bishop.



It looks like the king is rising from the grave.

 

Hmmm Halloween / Zombie / Ghastly ... it can all be subjective, but here are a few:

Zombie Bull

Carthage 216-215 BCE Sardinia mint AE 3.3g Tanit L - BULL stndg R CNP 377a


Wicked Herakles (actually an overstrike) and the faceless Lion


Carthage LIBYAN UPRISING Mercenary War 241-238 BCE AR DiShekel Heracles Head in Lion's Head- Lion walking R SNG Cop 240f


Rhodan Halloween Costume for my Horse


Carthage Zeugitana 250-200 BCE 2nd Punic AE 18 Tanit Horse Hd


Julia Domna...

RI AR Den Julia Domna 200 CE Felicitas Isis Horus RIC 577
AFTER SHE RETURNED FROM THE DEAD...

RI Julia Domna 194-217 Fouree AR Plated Den Isis Horus


METUS...

Etruria Populonia 3rd C BCE AR 20 As 8.1g Metus Blank HN 152
(Similar to the Goddess Medusa)

 

No double head.. Just bump in the dark. Khusro II.

 

Besides my Metus, here are a few Gorgons:

Never hurts to have your Happy Gorgon share the coin with a Flying Pig...

Ionia Klazomenai 480-400 BC AR Drachm Pentobol 3.5g 13mm Forepart winged boar r gorgoneion incuse sq Cf SNG Copenhagen 12 Rare



SICILY Kamarina Æ Onkia 13mm 1.5g 420-405 BCE Gorgon tongue - KAMA owl r lizard in claw pellet in ex SNG Münch 411



Pontos Amisos Gorgon Aegis-Nike AE21



MAKEDON Philip III Arrhidaios 323-317 BCE Æ 1-2 Unit 17mm 4.2g Miletos mint Makedonwn shield Gorgoneion - Helmet bipennis K Price 2064

 

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