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Denarius Vibia: Gaius Vibius Pansa, PANSA / C•VIBIVS•C•F, quadriga right
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 90 BC - 89 BC |
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| Thickness | 1.7 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine Republican style. A control mark appears below the chin, and a portion of the moneyer's legend is visible behind the head. The portrait is executed with characteristic late Republican realism, the laurel wreath rendered in fine detail around the cranium. |
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| Obverse lettering | PANSA |
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Gaius Vibius Pansa served as moneyer during one of the most destabilizing moments in Republican monetary history — the Social War, when Rome's Italian allies revolted and demanded full citizenship. The conflict forced an unprecedented expansion of the mint's output to fund military operations, and Pansa's issues belong to that emergency surge. He would later become consul in 43 BC alongside Aulus Hirtius, dying at the Battle of Mutina fighting Mark Antony — a death suspicious enough that Cicero's enemies accused Augustus of arranging it.