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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7921246, member: 98035&quot;]I may be one of the only members here crazy enough to take a stab at 1st century BC/AD Roman governor portrait coinage</p><p><br /></p><p>Cn. Statilius Libo, Praefect of Hispania under Julius Caesar or Octavian, otherwise unknown</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368454[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Vedius Polio, Mr &quot;feeds slaves to moray eels over a broken cup&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368461[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Asinius Gallus, who married Tiberius&#039; ex, claimed to be Drusus&#039; real father, and ultimately starved to death in prison</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368460[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Fabius Maximus, patron of the arts and put to death under mysterious circumstances</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368459[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><i><u>QUINCTILIUS VARUS, WHERE ARE MY EAGLES?!?</u></i></b></p><p><b><i><u>[ATTACH=full]1368455[/ATTACH] </u></i></b></p><p><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></p><p>Pythes, son of Pythes, otherwise unknown </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368456[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A couple others that weren&#039;t provincial governors, but can only be found on provincial</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucius Caesar, common as they come - but only with big brother Gaius! I believe this exact type (AE13 of Antioch) is one of only about 3-5 known, but I don&#039;t recall seeing a Lucius-only coin from anyone else on here </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368458[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Caligula as Caesar only appears on coinage from one extremely small series from Carthago Nova, here on an &quot;As&quot; with Tiberius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368457[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, descendant of Mark Antony and cousin of most Julio-Claudian emperors, king Marcus Antonius Polemo II has been posted here before, but I don&#039;t recall seeing this early AE coin from his tenure as high priest of Cilicia under his mother&#039;s regency</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368462[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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