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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2983342, member: 82322&quot;]Great Pan tetradrachm, Greg!&nbsp; I aspire to owning an example of this type someday.&nbsp; I do have the related small bronze of Pan erecting a trophy, but I do not have a scan of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was going to post the story of Pan inspiring panic in a battle as the reason he is shown on these coins.&nbsp; But I found <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-reassesment-of-the-pan-erecting-trophy-bronzes-of-antigonas-ii-gonatas.295570/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-reassesment-of-the-pan-erecting-trophy-bronzes-of-antigonas-ii-gonatas.295570/">a thread in which John Anthony says this reason is false</a>.&nbsp; I will counter with <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CR/40/1/Panic*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CR/40/1/Panic*.html" rel="nofollow">this 1926 article</a> from <i>Classical Review</i> which may explain how Pan became associated with <i>panic</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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