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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3192325, member: 82322&quot;][ATTACH=full]824422[/ATTACH] </p><p>Cilicia, uncertain. Obol, 0.54g. Unique?</p><p>Obv: Gorgoneion facing, no tongue, close-cropped hair; within 7 (or 8?)-sided aegis, two rows of scales, sides curved and neatly tied.</p><p>Rev: Three-quarters view of male head (bearded? satrap?), wearing headgear and headscarf.</p><p>ex-CNG, e-auction 146, August 2006, lot 442 (part of), from the David P. Herman Collection of Facing Heads on Greek Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin seems to depict the head of a satrap in an unprecedented three-quarters view. The style of the gorgoneion within the aegis seems to match the gorgoneion on a unique satrapal bronze coin published by Imhoof-Blumer in <i>Review Suisse Numismatik</i> (1913), p. 93, #266; pl. 4 #2, with inscription Α Γ (which Imhoof-Blumer claimed abbreviated Agchialae in Cilician lettering). The depicted headgear also seems similar. I believe it is a product of the same mint and period as Imhoof-Blumer&#039;s coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin dealer David Herman imagined the reverse as “Female or Queen’s head”. An anonymous Classical Numismatic Group cataloger described the reverse as a veiled female head.</p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming this example predates Alexander the Great’s conquest in 333 BC it’s an early depiction of an outspread aegis on a coin. The reverse is highly unusual -- usually satraps are depicted from the side on coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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