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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3161349, member: 84744"]Here's a more Romanized Greek coin similar to TIF's Silenus above, issued a year or two earlier (168-167 BCE). (It's more Roman because it features Roma on the obverse.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]811511[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gaius Publilius, quaestor, c. 168-167 BC. ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ ΤΑΜΙΟΥ ΓΑΙΟΥ ΠΟΠΛΙΛΙΟΥ. </p><p>SNG Cop. 1318, 11.61g, 23.0mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also relevant is this quinarius that Octavian/Augustus issued in 29/28 BCE to celebrate his defeat of Antony & Cleopatra, and thus the reincorporation of Asia (which had been under Antony's control). The cista mystica is used to represent Asia, as on [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER]'s Flavian example <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-roman-greek-coin.321712/#post-3160967" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-roman-greek-coin.321712/#post-3160967">earlier in the thread</a>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]811514[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3161349, member: 84744"]Here's a more Romanized Greek coin similar to TIF's Silenus above, issued a year or two earlier (168-167 BCE). (It's more Roman because it features Roma on the obverse.) [ATTACH=full]811511[/ATTACH] Gaius Publilius, quaestor, c. 168-167 BC. ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ ΤΑΜΙΟΥ ΓΑΙΟΥ ΠΟΠΛΙΛΙΟΥ. SNG Cop. 1318, 11.61g, 23.0mm. Also relevant is this quinarius that Octavian/Augustus issued in 29/28 BCE to celebrate his defeat of Antony & Cleopatra, and thus the reincorporation of Asia (which had been under Antony's control). The cista mystica is used to represent Asia, as on [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER]'s Flavian example [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-roman-greek-coin.321712/#post-3160967']earlier in the thread[/URL]. [ATTACH=full]811514[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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