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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8061129, member: 110350&quot;]Wonderful! I think your coin helps confirm the identification of the mask on the reverse of mine as Silenus rather than Pan, given the continuing association, over a period of at least 200 years, between a young, handsome Bacchus/Dionysus and Silenus as his elderly, bearded attendant. The repeating motif of the mask of Silenus lying flat on a basket suggests to me that such a scene would have been widely recognized, and&nbsp; has some sort of ritual or festive significance.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, one question I forgot to raise about the depiction of Bacchus/Liber on my coin: is anyone aware of another Roman coin showing a male deity or other figure wearing an earring?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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