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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7648572, member: 110350&quot;]Bearded and beardless Pans:</p><p><br /></p><p>Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion, AE 19 mm., ca. 320-310 BCE, minted under Perisad I, 345-310 BC. Obv. Bearded head of satyr, right / Rev. Forepart of griffin left; below, sturgeon left; Π-A-N [PAN] around. Anokhin (2011) 1023 [Anokhin, V.A., Античные Монеты Северного Причерноморья (Ancient Coins of the Northern Black Sea Coast) (Kiev. 2011) (see <a href="https://bosporan-kingdom.com/111-3141/)];" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bosporan-kingdom.com/111-3141/)];" rel="nofollow">https://bosporan-kingdom.com/111-3141/)];</a> Seaby 1700 [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe</i> (Seaby 1979) at p. 169]; BMC 3 Thrace 20 [R.S. Poole, ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. </i>(London, 1877) at p. 7]; HGC 7, 113 [Hoover, Oliver D., <i>Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos), 5th to 1st Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series</i>, <i>Volume 7</i> (Lancaster, PA, 2012); MacDonald 69 [MacDonald, David, <i>An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus. Classical Numismatic Studies 5</i> (Lancaster, 2005)]; SNG BM Black Sea 869-870 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume IX, British Museum, Part 1: The Black Sea</i> (London, 1993); available online at <a href="http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org</a>; see <u>SNGuk_0901_0869</u> and <u>SNGuk_0901_0870</u>]; Anokhin (1986) 111 [Anokhin, V.A., <i>Monetnoye delo Bospora (The Coinage of the Bosporus</i> (Kiev, 1986)]. 20 mm., 7.87 g., 12 h.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315075[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion, AE 20 mm., ca. 310-303 BCE, minted under Eumelos (Spartocid ruler of Bosporan Kingdom, son of Perisad I). Obv. Beardless head of young satyr (Pan) left, wearing ivy wreath / Rev. Lion head left; sturgeon below left; Π-A-N [PAN] around. Seaby 1701 [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 1: Europe</i> (Seaby 1979) at p. 169]; BMC 3 Thrace 21-22 [R.S. Poole, ed. <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 3, The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. </i>(London, 1877) at p. 8]; HGC 7, 114 [Hoover, Oliver D., <i>Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia, Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian Bosporos), 5th to 1st Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series</i>, <i>Volume 7</i> (Lancaster, PA, 2012); MacDonald 70 [MacDonald, David, <i>An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus. Classical Numismatic Studies 5</i> (Lancaster, 2005)]. 20 mm., 6.43 g. <i>Purchased from Kirk Davis, Catalogue # 77, Spring 2021, Lot 6.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1315079[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Roman Republican Pan:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. Vibius C. f. C. n. Pansa Caetronianus, AR Denarius 48 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Mask of bearded Pan right; below, PANSA / Rev. Jupiter A[n]xurus, laureate, barechested, seated left on throne, holding patera in right hand and long scepter in left hand; on right, C•VIBIVS•C•F•C•N curving downwards; on left, IOVIS • AXVR curving upwards. Crawford 449/1a, RSC I Vibia 18 (ill.), Sear RCV I 420 (ill.), Sear <i>Roman Imperators</i> 20 (ill. p. 14), BMCRR 3978, Sydenham 947. 19 mm., 3.75 g.* (<i>Purchased from Silbury Coins, UK, Sep. 2020</i>.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315077[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*Caius Vibius Pansa, son of Caius and grandson of Caius, was Consul in 43 BCE. (Crawford p. 465.) According to Grueber in BMCRR (pp. 509-510 at n. 1), he was a supporter of Caesar, and governor of Bithynia and Pontus in 47 BCE, striking coins at Apamea and Nicaea. He was killed in battle in 43 BCE before the town of Murina.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mask of Pan on the obverse is a pun on his <i>cognomen</i>, Pansa. (Crawford p. 465.) The figure of Jupiter A[n]xurus on the reverse (see the reverse legend) refers to an association of the moneyer’s <i>gens</i>, Vibia, with the town of Anxur (now Terracina). (See <i>id</i>.)&nbsp; The town is in Latium on the Tyrrhenian sea, about 98 km. southeast of Rome. See BMCRR at p. 510 at n. 1, stating that in Anxur “there was a special cult of Jupiter, whose temple was situated on the highest point of the city, and who was represented as a youth, handsome in features, and of perfect form; a representation suggested by the type of the coin.” See also John Melville Jones, <i>A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins</i> (Seaby, London 1990) at p. 153, under entry for Jupiter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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