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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3620816, member: 91461"]Great detective work. And I really like [USER=101607]@shanxi[/USER]'s point about it possibly being a lagobolon he's holding.</p><p>That is an amazing find.</p><p>Here's some pots and Pans of mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]970588[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion.</p><p>Circa 310-304/3 BC. Æ (11mm, 1.40g, 12h). Beardless head of satyr right / Bow in bowcase. Anokhin 1025; MacDonald 72; HGC 4, 135. Good VF, </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]970589[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Macedonian Kingdom. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 B.C. Æ (19.4 MM AND 4.91 Sear 6786 OBV: Helmeted head of Athena right REV: Pan standing right, erecting trophy Antigonus II (AntigonusGonatas) 320-239 BC, was king of Macedon & son of Demetrius I. He took the title king on his father's death (283) but made good his claim only by defeating the Gauls in Thrace and by taking Macedon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pan was the god of the wild, hunting and companion of the nymphs. He was depicted as being half human, while having the legs and horns of a goat, just like a faun; his Roman counterpart was Faunus. It is unclear as to who his parents were; his father may have been Zeus, Dionysus, Hermes, or Apollo. His mother may have been a nymph called Dryope, Penelope who later became the wife of Odysseus, or Aphrodite.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3620816, member: 91461"]Great detective work. And I really like [USER=101607]@shanxi[/USER]'s point about it possibly being a lagobolon he's holding. That is an amazing find. Here's some pots and Pans of mine: [ATTACH=full]970588[/ATTACH] CIMMERIAN BOSPOROS, Pantikapaion. Circa 310-304/3 BC. Æ (11mm, 1.40g, 12h). Beardless head of satyr right / Bow in bowcase. Anokhin 1025; MacDonald 72; HGC 4, 135. Good VF, [ATTACH=full]970589[/ATTACH] Macedonian Kingdom. Antigonos II Gonatas. 277/6-239 B.C. Æ (19.4 MM AND 4.91 Sear 6786 OBV: Helmeted head of Athena right REV: Pan standing right, erecting trophy Antigonus II (AntigonusGonatas) 320-239 BC, was king of Macedon & son of Demetrius I. He took the title king on his father's death (283) but made good his claim only by defeating the Gauls in Thrace and by taking Macedon. Pan was the god of the wild, hunting and companion of the nymphs. He was depicted as being half human, while having the legs and horns of a goat, just like a faun; his Roman counterpart was Faunus. It is unclear as to who his parents were; his father may have been Zeus, Dionysus, Hermes, or Apollo. His mother may have been a nymph called Dryope, Penelope who later became the wife of Odysseus, or Aphrodite.[/QUOTE]
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