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<p>[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3429715, member: 103829"]Mysia, Parion, 2nd - 1st century BC</p><p>AE 22, 6.21g, 0°</p><p>obv. Head of Gorgo with snakes and wings, facing</p><p>c/m monogram in circular incus</p><p>rev. ΠA - PI - ANΩN</p><p>Eagle with spread wings, stg. r.</p><p>monogram before, all within laurel wreath</p><p>ref. BMC 69; SNG von Aulock 1330; SNG Paris 1404</p><p>rare, about VF/F+</p><p>[ATTACH=full]910671[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is alive by the exceptional portait on the obv. Here the transition from the primordial grimacing and abhorrent Gorgo to the melancholic tantalized being of the late Hellenistic times is almost completed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3429715, member: 103829"]Mysia, Parion, 2nd - 1st century BC AE 22, 6.21g, 0° obv. Head of Gorgo with snakes and wings, facing c/m monogram in circular incus rev. ΠA - PI - ANΩN Eagle with spread wings, stg. r. monogram before, all within laurel wreath ref. BMC 69; SNG von Aulock 1330; SNG Paris 1404 rare, about VF/F+ [ATTACH=full]910671[/ATTACH] This coin is alive by the exceptional portait on the obv. Here the transition from the primordial grimacing and abhorrent Gorgo to the melancholic tantalized being of the late Hellenistic times is almost completed.[/QUOTE]
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