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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2368740, member: 75525&quot;]There is some debate on this subject. Julius Caesar was the first to put his portrait on the obverse of a regular issue of Roman coinage. He was dead soon after, on the Ides of March. After JC, everyone put his face on coins.</p><p>The first was several years earlier, either Titus Quinctius Flamininus (after 196 BC) or Publis Scipio (about 209 BC). There is little debate about the Flamininus coins. The British Museum has one - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Quinctius_Flamininus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Quinctius_Flamininus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Quinctius_Flamininus</a>. They are rare and were minted in gold after he defeated Macidonia in 196 BC. The Scipio coin is subject to much debate, but because I have one I choose to accept E S G Robinson&#039;s identification in Essays Mattingly in the following coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]484085[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/spain/carthago_nova/Robinson_7p.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/spain/carthago_nova/Robinson_7p.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/spain/carthago_nova/Robinson_7p.txt</a></p><p>The next two (or three) are on the reverse and also subject to debate. Marius was shown driving a chariot with his son on the reverse a coin by C Fundanius in 101BC, Cr 326/1. Sula was on the coin above about 20 years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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