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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3234577, member: 57495&quot;]Here&#039;s a less often seen one, a hemidrachm with Apollonia&#039;s famed nymphaeum fires on the obverse and Pan&#039;s lagobolon on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]845411[/ATTACH]<b>ILLYRIA, Apollonia</b></p><p>AR Hemidrachm (or 1/2 Victoriatus). 1.5g, 14.8mm. ILLYRIA, Apollonia, circa mid-late 1st century BC. Maier 121; BMC 44. O: AI-NEA, fires of the Nymphaeum of Apollonia. R: AΠOΛΛΩ-NIATAN, lagobolon (rabbit-bashing stick).</p><p>Notes: <i>In his &#039;Life of Sulla&#039;, Plutarch describes an event that occurred while Sulla was camped in the vicinity of Apollonia while preparing for his invasion of Rome. Some of his men had caught a satyr while it slept in the nearby Nymphaeum and brought it before Sulla. Translators tried in vain to question the creature, who would only reply in the hoarse, bleating cries of a goat. In horror and disgust, the great Roman general ordered that it be taken away from his sight. It was probably just poor Pan, looking for his lost rabbit-basher. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>And a matching drachm...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]845414[/ATTACH]<b>ILLYRIA, Apollonia</b></p><p>AR Drachm. 3.0g, 17.8mm. Circa 120/00-80/70 BC. Aibatios and Chairenos, magistrates. Maier 120; SNG Cop 398. O:&nbsp; AIBATIOΣ, cow standing left, suckling calf standing right below; in exergue, grain ear. R: ΑΠΟΛ-XAI-PH-NOΣ, Fires of the Nymphaeum and lagobolon (rabbit-bashing stick) within double linear frame.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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