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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3542311, member: 75937&quot;]I have a couple of Roman provincials depicting Dionysus and his panther.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941638[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina Jr., 147-175.</p><p>Roman provincial AE 9.06 gm; 24.7 mm.</p><p>Thrace, Anchialus, AD 147-155.</p><p>Obv: ΦΑVCΤΕΙΝΑ ΝΕΑ CΕΒΑCΤΗ, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΑNΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ, Dionysos standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus; panther at feet, left.</p><p>Refs: AMNG 434; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4525/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4525/" rel="nofollow">RPC 4525</a>; Varbanov 90; BMC --; SNG Copenhagen --.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941639[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ tetrassarion, 13.76 g, 26 mm.</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Nicopolis ad Istrum; Legate Aurelius Gallus, AD 201-204.</p><p>Obv: ΙΟVΛΙΑ ΔΟ-ΜΝΑ CΕΒΑ, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: VΠ ΑVΡ ΓΑΛΛΟV-ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ | ΠΡΟC ΙCΤΡΟ, Dionysos standing left,</p><p>naked except for boots, holding bunch of grapes and thyrsos, panther at foot left.</p><p>Refs: AMNG I 1456; Varbanov 2897; H&amp;J, <i>Nikopolis</i> 8.17.8.1 corr. (rev. legend); Mionnet Sup. 2, p. 134, 457 and pl. III, no 6.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the plate and listing from Mionnet:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]941640[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]941642[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And I have two variants of a coin depicting his big cats. In Roman mythology, Dionysus is known as Liber, and these coins of Gallienus&#039; zoo series bear the obverse legend&nbsp; LIBERO P CONS AVG and, as Jim Phelps argues while <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Liber%20Pater" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Liber%20Pater" rel="nofollow">writing about the coins of this issue</a>, there are two types, a panther type and a tigress type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941643[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gallienus, 253-268 AD.</p><p>Roman Æ Antoninianus, 2.65 g, 20.1 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome Mint, 10th emission, 267-268 AD.</p><p>Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right.</p><p>Rev: LIBERO P CONS AVG, panther walking left, B in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 230K; Göbl 713b; Cohen 586; RCV 10281; Cunetio 1341; Hunter 112.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941644[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gallienus, 253-268 AD.</p><p>Roman Æ Antoninianus, 2.63 g, 20.8 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Rome Mint, 10th emission, 267-268 AD.</p><p>Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right.</p><p>Rev: LIBERO P CONS AVG, tiger walking left, B in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 230K; Göbl 713b; Cohen 586; RCV 10281; Cunetio 1341; Hunter 112.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the illustration and listing from Banduri:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941645[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]941646[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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