Product Overview
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| Mythology | This beautiful Silver coin portraits a Medusa head on the Athena's Shield -Aegis. The mythology series continues after the Thor's Hammer issue with the Shield of Athena: Aegis. Minted in ultra high relief on a piedfort 2oz blank and finished in antique. Detailed like never seen before on such a relief. Just 999 pieces are issued in pure silver. |
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| — Goddess of Wisdom and War Strategy — ... She is almost always shown with an owl which stands for wisdom and watchfulness. Athena's symbols and their meaning. The aegis is Athena's shield which represents her protective power. The helmet symbolizes that wisdom and strategy is the key to victory in war. Athena often helped heroes, like Jason and Perseus. She wore an aegis, a goatskin shield which had a fringe of snakes. When Perseus killed the gorgon Medusa, whose face turned men to stone, he gave the gorgon head to Athena, and the goddess placed it on her aegis. | |
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