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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2447020, member: 72818&quot;]This little silver coin just grabbed me and wouldn&#039;t let go----that haunting portrait just mesmerizes me.....and I&#039;m thinking of using it as my new &#039;avatar&#039; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have another of the type, as so many of us do, but instead of a &#039;Gorgon&#039;, I have Apollo on the obverse (full flan possibly a &#039;shaved&#039; edge?) with a hairline that seems strangely familiar<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />...... and the reverse not only has that same &#039;anchor&#039; but also a skinny crab or a lobster or even a crayfish (my &#039;choice&#039;), depending on what reference you examine, that more closely resembles its distant relation the scorpion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post away at your leisure<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Silver Diobol of Apollonia Pontica,Thrace; circa 360 BC; 1.21 grams, 10 mm</p><p>Facing head of Apollo; Anchor between A and &#039;crustacean&#039;<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>BMC 15</p><p>[ATTACH=full]511014[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]511015[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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