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A work made of bronze.

Coin Depicting a Gorgoneion

120-63 BCE

Greek

Ancient Greece

The front (obverse) of this coin shows a Gorgoneion (a Gordon Head used as an apotropaic symbol) on an octagonal aegis. On the back (reverse), the goddess Nike (Victory) holds a palm branch.

Bronze

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium