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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Apollonia Pontica| > GA95212
Apollonia Pontika, Thrace, 480 - 450 B.C.
|Apollonia| |Pontica|, |Apollonia| |Pontika,| |Thrace,| |480| |-| |450| |B.C.|, A gorgoneion was a horror-creating apotropaic Gorgon head pendant. The name derives from the Greek word gorgós, which means "dreadful." The Gorgons were three sisters who had hair of living, venomous snakes, and a horrifying face that turned those who saw it to stone. Stheno and Euryale were immortal, but their sister Medusa was not, and was slain by Perseus. Zeus, Athena, Hellenistic kings and Roman emperors wore Gorgoneion for protection. Images of the Gorgons were also put upon objects and buildings for protection. A Gorgon image is at the center of the pediment of the temple at Corfu, the oldest stone pediment in Greece from about 600 B.C.
GA95212. Silver drachm, Topalov Apollonia p. 586, 42; SNG BM 157; SNG Cop 452; HGC 3.2 1323; SNG Stancomb -, aVF, some marks and scratches, Apollonia Pontica (Sozopol, Bulgaria) mint, weight 3.294g, maximum diameter 14.6mm, die axis 180o, 480 - 450 B.C.; obverse anchor flukes up, curved stock, A left, crayfish right; reverse archaic Ionian style Gorgoneion (facing head of Medusa), snakes for hair, large open mouth, pointed teeth, long protruding tongue, reverse is concave; SOLD










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