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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Scipio, post: 5141314, member: 103869&quot;]Very impressive coin, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] , maybe the most complete I have ever seen.</p><p>About the meaning of the reverse scene of course there will never be a definitive solution. The most interesting one, IMO, is that the coin celebrates the victory of the Italic deity Liber (obverse) on Bacchus/Dyonisus/Pan, deriving from the Greek tradition, and connected with the rituals of the Bacchanals. The reverse should show the panther/leopard honoring Bacchus represented in a defeat context, as a mask deposed on an althar. This should refer to the forbidding of the Bacchanals, as stated in the Senatus Consultus de Bacchanalibus of 186 b.C., reported on the bronze table found in Tiriolo in 1640.[ATTACH=full]1206293[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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