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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3494035, member: 51347&quot;]I kinda like this one, I got it more for him being the General that lost 3 legions in the Teutoburg Forest.&nbsp; However, earlier in his career he beat up on the Iudaeans around the time of Iesus&#039; birth.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PUBLIUS QUINCTILIUS VARUS </b></p><p><b>RARE AE OF ANTIOCHEIA, SYRIA</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2019-3-20_11-34-32-png.909029/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>RPC 4252, SNG Cop. 92, About Very Fine / Very Fine, 20.4mm, 8.03 grams, Dated year 27 = 5/4 B.C.E.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus to right</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: Tyche of Antioch seated to right, holding palm branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming right, in right field, date ZK (year 27 = 5/4 B.C.E.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This rare coin was struck during Varus&#039; assignment as governor of Syria from 7 - 4 B.C.E. Varus guarded the borders from Parthia and violently quelled unrest in Judaea and Samaria. Josephus records an incident wherein after the death of Herod., Varus occupied Jerusalem and crucified 2,000 Jews.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later Varus was transfered to the Northern front, where he met disaster fighting the Germanic tribes in the Teutoburg forest. Three legions under his command, legions XVII, XVIII and XIX were completely annihilated. This caused emperor Augustus great grief and he was said to have cried out on occasion &quot;Quintili Vare, legiones redde!&quot; or &quot;Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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