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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4862608, member: 110350&quot;]Neither of my Medusa/Gorgoneion coins looks particularly evil, I&#039;m afraid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace, Apollonia Pontika, 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. Goldsborough Type 3 [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]; Seaby 1655 <i>var. </i>(crayfish to left, A to right) [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe</i> (Seaby 1978); Topalov 41-42 [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)]; BMC 15 Mysia 8-10 [Wroth, Warwick, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia</i> (London, 1892) at pp. 8-9]; SNG.BM.159; see also id. Nos. 154-158&nbsp; [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea</i> (London, 1993)] [online ID <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"><b>SNGuk_0901_0159</b></a> ]. 14 mm., 2.96 g., 3 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174498[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic, L. Plautius Plancus, AR Denarius, 47 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Facing head of Medusa with coiled snake on either side of face [<i>bankers’ marks to left of mouth</i>], L. PLAVTIVS below / Rev. Winged Aurora flying right, holding palm frond and conducting the four horses of the sun, PLANCVS below. RSC I Plautia 15, Crawford 453/1a, Sydenham 959, Sear RCV I 429, BMCRR Rome 4004. 18 mm., 4.0 g. RRDP die matches: Schaefer Binder 9, p. 185-0, Die Type XXVI.</p><p><br /></p><p>[Showing photo of obverse only.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174501[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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