Lot 3782

Description

Croydon, 1977, mid-fired pottery unofficial teaching staff presentation medal (91mm), from Croydon High School, South Australia, obverse, a grotesque face with tongue sticking out, at the right side a fly and at the left 'Croydon 1977', reverse, a sexually explicit depiction of an ithyphallic satyr advancing right and carrying off a nymph who has a bottle in one hand and a cup in the other, based on the design of ancient Greek Thracian Islands coinage of Thasos c500-480BC. Crude but uncirculated.