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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3219006, member: 96864&quot;]Nice gorgon [USER=15445]@Collect89[/USER] , one of those drachms was my first ever Greek silver coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a Klazomenai gorgon that looks as though it was struck using dies cut by the exact same person that cut the dies for the great drachm [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] has:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]837582[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]837583[/ATTACH] </p><p>Klazomenai, Ionia, AR diobol 10 mm, 1.12 gr. 5th century BC (tetartemorion 0.18g). Apparently Medusa birthed the twin beasts Pegasus and Chrysaor (&quot;Pigasus&quot;) from her neck after being decapitated by Perseus. Poseidon, the apparently inattentive father of these beasts did little to prevent Chrysaor from flying around ravaging the countryside of Klazomenai. </p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s the whole spooky coven of gorgons haunting my accumulation (the high-relief 500-475 BC drachm of Parion in center is pretty wild, and as I understand spawned Celtic imitations like the top left and right coins):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]837593[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]837594[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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