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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientone, post: 3125645, member: 71599&quot;]Nice Macedonian coins [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER]! I think your Demetrios has an aegis shield similar to mine below. </p><p><br /></p><p>Pre Alex the Great coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]796429[/ATTACH]<b>Macedonian Kings, Perseus. 178-168 BC. AE 23mm. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]796430[/ATTACH] <b>Macedonian Kings, Philip V. Bronze AE17. Aegis shield.</b></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]796431[/ATTACH]</p><p>&quot;It&#039;s a rendering of the Classical (not the traditional Archaic) more romantic Medusa. For the type see the Rondanini Medusa in the Glyptothek in Munich. Considering that it&#039;s a detail of a 15mm coin, it&#039;s remarkably good, even suggesting the foreshortened knotted snakes that frame her chin. All other things being equal, a Medusa gorgoneion is Athena&#039;s most usual episematic device, since it belongs to the aegis. Actually, it needn&#039;t be specifically the Medusa of the Perseus myth, but a lot of books call any gorgon &#039;Medusa&#039;.&quot;</p><p>-Patricia Lawrence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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