Another couple of Gorgon heads..... Apollonia Pontika, Silver Drachm, SNG Cop 454 Obv:– Facing Gorgoneion, wearing taenia?. Rev:– Inverted anchor, crayfish left, A right Minted in Apollonia Pontika. 450 – 400 B.C. Reference:– SNG Cop 454 Mysia, Parion, Silver hemidrachm Obv:– Facing Gorgoneion, surrounded by snakes. Rev:– PA / RI, bull standing left, looking back right Minted in Parion, 350 - 300 B.C. Reference:– BMC Mysia p. 95, 14 2.427g, 13.8mm
Geez. That coin brings to mind the Seinfeld episode about the Kramer oil painting - when the buyer says of it "He is a loathsome offensive brute ... and yet I can't look away".
Oh I see the goose .... now. I had no idea what that goose was but I thought maybe ... oh well, better keep it clean. Thanks I guess this is some kind of duck dynasty camo from another time and place.
very cool medal. as you saw before i like skeletons (hands). and skulls and skeletons. i saw a new skull coin on Ebay and now I can't remember what country it came from...ha ha ha....all i remmember from the auction what that it was $300.00 dollars at that time of the auction. cool but i am not paying $300 for it.
I remember now. It was a skull coin from Palau $5 2010 year. now going for $50-1,000. they have a proof of it going for $32 as of now.
Hi Christian - do you have any more than this? Was it relating to a specific event? My German is not good, so I am not sure what message it was trying to get across. I would certainly love one of these to go with my Lusitania medal.
Don't have such a piece myself, but Eberbach designed several of these (iron) medals and sold them. Here is the same piece, along with a brief description in English: http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=525826 The text on the reverse means "To Lord Curzon, hater of the Germans". Some other info and links are here: http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=525827 http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/imageryofwar/exhibition/page4.html http://kultmops.de/Medaillen/album/Eberbach, Walter/index.html This Baldwin catalog shows some on page 9 (p. 164): http://www.baldwin.co.uk/media/cms/...n-70/Commemorative Medals 4 Lots 800-890 .pdf Well, I do not collect war propaganda (and find most of Karl Goetz's cartoonish medals to be quite disgusting), but obviously they sold fairly well during WW1. For medal collectors they may indeed be interesting. Christian
Thanks Christian - that helps a lot. Looks like I would need pretty deep pockets to expand into this area - I will just hope one drops into my lap.
