TYPE Ancient Greece, Parion (Mysia), ca. 480 BC, silver 3/4 drachm(?), 3.08g DESCRIPTION . Obv: Gorgon facing Rev: Cruciform pattern in incuse REFERENCE: SG 3917 GRADING: AVF, gray toning, typically crude ORDER INFO: G1511, $50 A crude (partially perhaps due to undersized flans) but interesting archaic rendition of a Gorgon, only conjecturally attributed to Parion - well known later for artistic executions of the Gorgon / bull hemidrachms. Curiously, this issue was also imitated, a couple of centuries later, by the "barbarian" Tectosages of Galatia, although in an even cruder form.