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Denarius Vibia: Gaius Vibius Pansa, PANSA / C•VIBIVS•C•F
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 90 BC |
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| Value | Denarius (1) |
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| Obverse lettering | PANSA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gaius Vibius Pansa served as moneyer around 90 BC, at the precise moment the Social War was fracturing the Italian peninsula. Rome's allied Italian peoples, denied citizenship after decades of broken promises, had risen in open revolt — and the mint was under pressure to produce coin in volume to fund a war being fought on multiple fronts simultaneously. The RRC 342 series belongs to that anxious, accelerated output.
Pansa would later resurface in Roman history as consul in 43 BC, dying from wounds at the Battle of Forum Gallorum against Mark Antony's forces — the same engagement that also killed his co-consul Hirtius.