cool. Yeah, gold is essentially worthless for martial purposes (until the electrified age; I'm sure it'd make an OK sling bullet; lead does, but who could afford it?...); soft, soft stuff. I wonder how these relate to fighting helmets of the same culture? With the eyes, what they remind me of is the old Attic helmets, I forget the name, when they would push them up on their heads, exposing their face. This was likely a fairly routine soldiers' gesture, but its presence on statues of leaders may suggest it was a standard kind of posing for a war-leader making an address in Attic Greece at some point. Silver, interestingly, was worth much more than it is now in the "Old World" previous to the conquest and robbery of Mexico and Peru. Before that silver was much closer in value to gold. I was reading some interesting things about the worldwide economic effects of that single thing; exporting all that silver.............
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