CNG 76 is online.
It includes a half Athenian Dekadrachm.
A few years ago CNG started describing the Etrurian 'gorgon' coins as depicting Metus, the personification of Fear. I haven't noticed any other catalogers doing this. I wonder what lead to the change?
In Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon, Stephen Wilk theorizes some 'gorgons' might depict Fear and Dread, but he knows of no examples.
Harvard Art Museums added to BIGR
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Thanks to the work of Simon Glenn (Ashmolean Musem, Oxford) and Laure
Marest (Harvard Art Museums), 19 coins from Harvard Art Museums have been
added to ...
1 day ago
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