Advanced Search
Advanced Search
View: Obverse

Drachm of Neapolis with Gorgoneion

Greek
Late Archaic or Classical Period
500–411 B.C.
Mint: Macedonia, Neapolis

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 14 mm. Weight: 4.03 gm.
Credit Line Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number00.131
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0562.
DescriptionObverse: Gorgoneion, mouth open, teeth showing, tongue protruding; wrinkled nose; hair parted in center, falling in groups of two (or more) strands.
Reverse: Fourpart incuse square.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; 1900: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren