Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 1, Lot: 130

ATTICA: Athens. Ca. 520-518 BC. AR "Wappenmünzen" 
tetradrachm (16.80 gm). 
Gorgoneion with tightly curled snaky locks, grimacing 
fanged mouth and protruding tongue.
Facing lion head and paws in shallow incuse square. 
Nicolet-Pierre, RN 1983, p. 19 and pl. 4, 25 (this coin). 
Asyut 260 (this coin). Rosen 195 (this coin). Seltman Group 
K. 
Extremely rare. 

Ex Jonathan P. Rosen Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 
72, 6 October 1987, lot 397); ex Asyut hoard, 1969. 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 
Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
 and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).