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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5289159, member: 110350&quot;]This qualifies to meet both of the two most recent requests, as the obverse can be interpreted as Medusa, and Apollonia Pontika (now Sozopol) is on the Black Sea:</p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace, Apollonia Pontika [now Sozopol, Bulgaria], AR Drachm, ca. 450-400 BCE. Obv. Upright anchor with large flukes and curved stock; “A” [for Apollonia] to left and crayfish to right between flukes and stock&nbsp; / Rev. Facing gorgoneion (Medusa), wavy hair parted in middle, 16 thin, open-mouthed snakes around head as additional hair or crown, puffy cheeks, mouth open, tongue protruding (but not extending below chin), all within shallow incuse. <b>Goldsborough Type 3</b> [Goldsborough, Reid, <i>Apollonia Pontika Drachms</i> (see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http:/medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http:/medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20141115000124/http://medusacoins.reidgold.com/apollonia.html</a>), Catalogue of Types]; <b>Seaby 1655 </b><i><b>var.</b> </i>(crayfish to left, A to right) [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe</i> (Seaby 1978); <b>Topalov 41-42</b> [Topalov, Stavri, <i>Apollonia Pontika: Contribution to the Study of the Coin Minting of the City 6th - 1st c. B.C., Catalogue of Apollonia Coins, 7th-1st c. B.C. </i>(Sofia, 2007) (English Translation, Kindle edition)]; <b>BMC 15 Mysia 8-10</b> [Wroth, Warwick, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia</i> (London, 1892) at pp. 8-9]; <b>SNG.BM.159; see also id. Nos. 154-158</b>&nbsp; [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea</i> (London, 1993)] [online ID <b><a href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0249" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0249" rel="nofollow">SNGuk_0901_0159</a></b> ]. 14 mm., 2.96 g., 3 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221848[/ATTACH]</p><p>Next: more gorgoneions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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