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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3295174, member: 103829&quot;]<b>Another Gorgo</b></p><p><br /></p><p>In the course of time her ugliness has softened and about 400 BC in the Medusa Rondanini (Munich, Glyptothek) a distinctly beautiful type is reached, however of a cold, soulless beauty. The hellenism then give her the painful features of melancholia and does no longer show the tantalizing, but the tantalized being. (Der Kleine Pauly)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]872053[/ATTACH] </p><p>The next coin (from my collection) shows a Medusa, that is no more the grimacing, horror propagating monster as we are used to see it on the coins from Parion. Here the transition from the original grimacing, terror spreading monster into the melancholic, suffering being of the late Hellenistic time is almost finished.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]872054[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mysia, Parion, 2nd - 1st century BC</p><p>AE 22, 6.21g, 0°</p><p>obv. Head of Gorgo, with snakes and wingsm frontal in dotted circle</p><p>in r. field c/m: monogram in circular incus (not in Howgego)</p><p>rev. ΠA - PI - ANΩN</p><p>Eagle with open wings stg.r., before monogram, all in laurel wreath</p><p>ref. BMC Mysia, p. 100, 69; SNG von Aulock 1330; SNG France 1404</p><p>about VF/F, green patina with earthen Highlights</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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