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Message:: [QUOTE="Tom Simmons, post: 3325390, member: 100948"]In my view, you are correct, Severus and Zumbly: the "VICTRIX" piece could not have been struck under the more famous "Cato the Younger", who was a moneyer 47-46 BC and (as someone else has pointed out) was only six years old in 89 BC. The other logical choice would be M. PORCIUS CATO, the father of "Cato the Younger", was was a tribune ca. 99 BC and apparently ran for the praetorship in 91. Sources say he died before the end of the Social War (88 BC), so the suspicion must be strong that it was this Cato who struck the piece (thus he must have been a moneyer ca. 90-89 BC, just prior to his death).[/QUOTE]