Halloween Season - Spooky, Creepy, and Downright Scary Coins

[renegade3220]

Hi all,

Every year, there is always a round of Christmas coins posted, whether legit or cleverly photoshopped for the holiday.  I thought it would be neat to have a similar thread for the Halloween season (whether you celebrate or not).

With that said, let's post some spooky, creepy, and downright scary coins.  Whether the coin meets the criteria due to looks, history, or clever photoshopping, post it here!

The coin I am posting does not belong to me.  It was for sale on the Bay, but prompted this post.

Enjoy.

(I think nothing needs to be said about this coin.  The appearance says it all!)

[PeterD]

TRICK OR TREAT!

[*Alex]

 

[Andrew McCabe]

Try lighting almost any portrait from the bottom of the coin, angled. Can be pretty horrifying!

[JBF]

I don't have a picture, but I once saw a coin on line (Roman Provincial??) which has on the reverse Orpheus and his wife Eurydice in the underworld.  However, Eurydice but _only_ Eurydice looked triple struck, thus having a ghostlike image.

If anyone knows this coin, please post it so I can see it again!  Very cool. 

[renegade3220]

I don't have a picture, but I once saw a coin on line (Roman Provincial??) which has on the reverse Orpheus and his wife Eurydice in the underworld.  However, Eurydice but _only_ Eurydice looked triple struck, thus having a ghostlike image.

If anyone knows this coin, please post it so I can see it again!  Very cool. 

+1. I would very much like to see this one.

[Enodia]

two heads are better than one...   
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-50934 

[David Atherton]

Domitian as Caesar issued a reverse that showed a human head (hopefully of an enemy!) at the end of a sceptre according to the BMCRE II description.

"No legend. Domitian, togate, cloak flying out behind him, on horse prancing l., extending r. hand and holding vertical sceptre with human head at end, in l."

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-99736

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-23733

The new RIC II makes no mention of the head however.

[Matt Inglima]

I always thought that the exposed core on this plated denarius made Claudius look a bit like a zombie...    

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

[renegade3220]

  Walking Dead all the way

[JBF]

They're not ancients, but have you seen the zombie coins at a coin show?

The "barber" coin has a pair of scissors stuck in an eye socket.  also zombie buffalos.

But Matt, I "like" your zombie Claudius more. eyuuuu!

[John Anthony]

I've got a couple decrepit zombie fourees myself.

[SC]

I wonder if there is one of those Sergius Silius denarii with the rider's head worn away or missing from a clogged die?  Then you would have Ichabod Crane's nemesis the headless horseman.

Shawn

[Jay GT4]

Another severed head:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-59288

Caesar's mummy :


https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-75533

[arizonarobin]

my "spooky" coin, Valerian with an extra eye!

[SC]

Nice!

Not just four-eyed Valerian, but Felicitas appears to have a pair of horns and the caduceus looks like a trident!

Felictas Beelzebub!

Shawn

[Jaimelai]

Happy Halloween!

[cliff_marsland]

I can't really think of any scary coins (other than ugly) I have, but here's a couple of spooky originals of radio shows

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/24073/normal_Inner_Sanctum_-_490530_-_AFRS_%23084_-_The_Corpse_Is_Lonely_-_Pt__01.jpg

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/24073/Do_You_Believe_In_Ghosts_-_%23007_-_3xxxxx.jpg

Inner Sanctum (1941-52, CBS, ABC, also Australian) was one of the quintessential scary shows one thinks of when when thinks of OTR.  You've probably heard the famous squeaking door from the closing segment. The other program was a very obscure c. 1934 syndicated series.

I wish I had the original of Lights Out "Poltergheist, " an episode in which some young ladies inadvertently dance on a grave within  a graveyard.  The malevolent protector of the graveyard gets revenge in grisly ways; including a head smashed in by a tombstone (ouch!). 

Happy Halloween!  In the words of Inner Sanctum's Raymond, "Pleasant dreams, hmmmm. (squeaking door)."