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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4694009, member: 99456"]<img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/45/2511/2579647.s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Here's an <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=mask+cista" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=mask+cista" rel="nofollow">intriguing option</a> depending on how clearly you see BΑΣΙΛЄΩΣ - weight also doesn't seem quite right, but I like the mask of Silenos on reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Phrygia, Laodicea, pseudo-autonomous (2nd century), AE, Ailius Dionysios, magistrate.</p><p><b>Obv:</b> ΛΑΟΔΙKЄΩΝ, Draped bust of Dionysus right, wearing ivy wreath.</p><p><b>Rev: </b>AIΛ ΔIONVCIOC, cista mystica, with serpent and mask of Silenus.</p><p><b>Size:</b> 5.44g, 21mm</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd generally like to know more about what this is representing - here's a related combination on a coin from the Roman Republic. Perhaps general link between Libertas and Dionysus?[ATTACH=full]1153910[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Imperatorial Rome, C. Vibius Varus</b>, 42 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Head of young Bacchus, wearing wreath of ivy and grapes, hair collected into a knot behind, one lock and fillet of wreath falling down his neck</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Panther springing left toward garlanded altar surmounted by bacchic mask and thyrsus; C • VIBIVS in exergue, VARVS upward to right</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 494/36[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4694009, member: 99456"][IMG]https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/45/2511/2579647.s.jpg[/IMG] Here's an [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=mask+cista']intriguing option[/URL] depending on how clearly you see BΑΣΙΛЄΩΣ - weight also doesn't seem quite right, but I like the mask of Silenos on reverse. Phrygia, Laodicea, pseudo-autonomous (2nd century), AE, Ailius Dionysios, magistrate. [B]Obv:[/B] ΛΑΟΔΙKЄΩΝ, Draped bust of Dionysus right, wearing ivy wreath. [B]Rev: [/B]AIΛ ΔIONVCIOC, cista mystica, with serpent and mask of Silenus. [B]Size:[/B] 5.44g, 21mm I'd generally like to know more about what this is representing - here's a related combination on a coin from the Roman Republic. Perhaps general link between Libertas and Dionysus?[ATTACH=full]1153910[/ATTACH] [B]Imperatorial Rome, C. Vibius Varus[/B], 42 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint [B]Obv:[/B] Head of young Bacchus, wearing wreath of ivy and grapes, hair collected into a knot behind, one lock and fillet of wreath falling down his neck [B]Rev: [/B]Panther springing left toward garlanded altar surmounted by bacchic mask and thyrsus; C • VIBIVS in exergue, VARVS upward to right [B]Ref: [/B]Crawford 494/36[/QUOTE]
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