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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5404554, member: 110350&quot;]I really like the obverse of my Plautius Plancus denarius -- including the snakes at Medusa&#039;s temples and the banker&#039;s mark(s) to the left of her mouth -- but the reverse isn&#039;t great, since the fourth horse is entirely missing, one can barely read the inscription, and it&#039;s difficult to distinguish the different figures that are still visible. So when I&#039;ve posted it, I&#039;ve almost always posted only the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1233699[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1233700[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s my Apollonia Pontika:</p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace, Apollonia Pontika [now Sozopol, Bulgaria], AR Drachm, ca. 450-500 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>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 <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]1233702[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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