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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2703532, member: 57495&quot;]This Mask of Silenus type from Macedon&#039;s early years as a Roman Protectorate had been on my want list for awhile.&nbsp; I finally managed to score a fairly nice one for a decent price and was really happy when I received it a few days ago.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The glossy, jet black patina didn&#039;t make it easy to photograph, but is <b>perfect </b>for the sinister, doom-metal-album-cover-worthy visage of the old satyr Silenus.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to share your coins of Silenus or Macedon under the Romans.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]608839[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>MACEDON (Roman Protectorate)</b></p><p>AE. 8.61g, 21.1mm. Transitional bronze issue, circa 166-165 BC. SNG Copenhagen 1324-6; BMC 55; HGC 3.1, 1117. O: Facing mask of Silenus, wearing ivy wreath. R: MAKE/DONON, legend in two lines; D above; all within ivy wreath.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes</b>:&nbsp; Hugo Gaebler in AMNG III contended that the Latin D on the reverse stands for <i>decreto</i>, a decree by the Roman Senate to recall and restrike an earlier series of coins (the &#039;Roma/Wreath&#039; series issued with the names of the quaestors Gaius Publilius and Lucius Fulcinnius, which these coins have been found overstruck on).&nbsp; Gaebler dated the issue to 141-140 BC, reading the device of the mask of Silenus to be a pun on the cognomen of D. Junius Silanus Manlianus, the praetor for 141 BC.&nbsp; Pierre MacKay proposes a different dating, instead placing the &#039;Roma/Wreath&#039; series to 168-167 BC, immediately following the Roman conquest of Macedon.&nbsp; Consequently, he dates this &#039;Silenus/Wreath&#039; issue to 166-165 BC, after, it is suggested, a recall of the earlier series was necessitated when the Macedonian population took offense to local coins that bore the names of the Roman quaestors and depicted the goddess Roma wearing the helmet of the mythical hero Perseus, the namesake of their recently defeated Antigonid king Perseus.&nbsp; While his chronology is persuasive, MacKay, unfortunately, does not provide a convincing explanation for the choice of the mask of Silenus as the new device.&nbsp; Perhaps how evil and cool it looked was good enough reason?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For a good writeup and example of the earlier Roma/wreath series, see [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER]&#039;s thread here: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-interesting-bronze-from-roman-macedon.276704/#post-2383420" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-interesting-bronze-from-roman-macedon.276704/#post-2383420">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-interesting-bronze-from-roman-macedon.276704/#post-2383420</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I initially posted the seller&#039;s pics of this coin in an earlier thread, and subsequently [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] produced an arresting graphic revealing the Man behind the Mask <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Here it is again for those of you who may have missed it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]608840[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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