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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2519500, member: 57495&quot;]Outstanding win, ancientnut... I&#039;m also keen to hear which picture you think best captures your coin in all its feathery, crabby glory <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=72818]@Mikey Zee[/USER], congrats... fantastic catch!</p><p><br /></p><p>I was underbidder on my main CNG 103 target.&nbsp; Had I won it, it would easily have been the highlight of my collecting year.&nbsp; I missed out on several other targets as well, winning only a single coin.&nbsp; It looks awfully junky, but is historically interesting... a Roman Republic provincial showing with the portrait of the striking authority, Aulus Gabinius, the proconsular governor of Syria, who was given 10,000 silver talents by Ptolemy XII to invade Egypt and restore him to the throne.&nbsp; Gabinius would later be brought to trial in Rome for this act.&nbsp; The reverse legend of the coin - ΓABINIC OIEN NYΣH (<i>of the People of Gabinian Nysa</i>) - speaks to his patronage of the city of Nysa-Scythopolis. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/10300667.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p>Aulus Gabinius, <i>Legatus Syriae</i></p><p>AE20. 7.29g, 20mm. SYRIA, Nysa-Scythopolis mint, 57-55 BC. Barkay 1; RPC I 4826; HGC 10, 384. O: Wreathed head of Gabinius right; [GA to left]. R: ΓABINIC OIEN NYΣH (<i>of the People of Gabinian Nysa</i>), Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm.</p><p><i>Ex Korwin Collection; Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 307 (24 July 2013), lot 205</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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