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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2874335, member: 84744&quot;]The connection between that type (and [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER]&#039;s) to the Marius victories is awesome... great coin!!</p><p><br /></p><p>The closest republicans I have are a couple also associated with Marius.&nbsp; The first is a coin of Saturninus, who was Marius&#039; tame tribune of the plebs. A very colourful character, he helped Marius secure land for his veterans and brought in a law to subsidize grain for the urban population. He was opposed by the aristocrats, who eventually issued a senatus consultum ultimum directing Marius to defend the state, after Saturninus had assassinated a candidate for the consulship. Marius defeated a rabble and tried to spare Saturninus by securing him in the Curia, but he was killed by members of the aristocratic party who climbed onto the roof and pelted him with heavy roof tiles.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was issued in 104 BC, when Saturninus was fired from his quaestorship, pushing him into the arms of Marius and the populist party.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687702[/ATTACH] </p><p>And this coin was issued in 100 BC, the year of Saturninus&#039;s death. It was issued to mark the passage of, and pay for, the Marius/Saturninus law subsidizing grain for the people of Rome.&nbsp; AD FRVmentum EMVndum = &quot;for buying grain&quot;. Ironically, the issuers, L. Calpurnius Piso and particularly Q. Servilius Caepio, led the aristocratic opposition to Saturninus and Marius.&nbsp; (Caepio was also the father of Julius Caesar&#039;s mistress, Servilia.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687709[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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