Art Institute of Chicago
Denarius (Coin) Depicting Mask of Pan
Roman, minted in RomeLinkedCulture matchlcp-e1eed953bf88
- Date
- about 48 BCE, issued by C. Vibius Pansa
- Medium
- Silver
- Culture
- Roman Empire
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 141641
During the first century BCE, powerful Roman families issued their own coinage, which often bore a personal icon. In this case the moneyer, a member of the Pansa family, used a mask of Pan in reference to the family’s name.
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- Credit line
- Gift of William F. Dunham
- Provenance
- William F. Dunham (1857-1936), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1920.
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- Object type
- AAT300037334
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