Welcome to the Home Page of Stefan Faller!

This home page contains a kind of search request for an interesting coin plus some information about myself. So, here's the first section:

WANTED!

The following are a few photographs of a Roman Republican denarius struck under Caius Vibius Pansa in either 90 or 89 B.C. (in fact, they seem to be reproductions of two different sets of photographs; apologies for the bad quality!).

First, here are two shots of the obverse, depicting the (laureate?) head of the Roman god Apollo:

Then again, here are two more or less recognizable views of the reverse, depicting the Roman goddess Minerva in a chariot driven by four horses:

A special feature of this coin is that it has been pierced at the top, perhaps for using it as a pendant. It has been dug up and photographed in 1958, and then, unfortunately, it disappeared. I suppose that it found its way to an Indian, Sri Lankan or other South Asian bazaar and might have been acquired there by a collector. In fact, my hope is that it is in some private collection now. In the very rare event that it is either in your possession or that you have seen it or heard of it in the past decades, I'd be very grateful if you sent me a mail to

Stefan.Faller@web.de.

NOTE: I am interested in THIS particular coin, not similar ones. Also, I am not necessarily out to buy this coin; I just would like to know where it is and to have a look at it for research purposes. So, if you can help me, I'd be very grateful!

Personal info:

I'm a lecturer at the Classics Dept. of the University of Freiburg (Germany), trying to help people getting to grips with their Latin and Greek studies. My special interests in that field concern Roman and Greek contacts with the east, especially with South Asian regions like the ancient Taprobane (Sri Lanka; there are probably more ancient Greek and Latin texts mentioning that island than you would think!). I also have written a PhD thesis on exactly that topic, which was published in 2000. If anybody reading this is also interested in this field, I'd be happy to receive your comments, questions or whatever via email.

If you would like to have a virtual look around my university, just click here. Some insights about the Department of Classical Philology you'll find here.

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