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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8472289, member: 26430&quot;]I forget what his exact role was in Spain, but after the Carthaginians were gone I think he was more like the acting general for a time. More or the less the head of state (i.e., under Roman military control). I don&#039;t know if Carthago Nova would&#039;ve been part of a Province, or if he could&#039;ve been a Governor/acting Governor.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think these &quot;Romanized&quot; heads on the Carthago Nova coins are probably Scipio, but the evidence isn&#039;t great. I do think they &quot;look like&quot; his contemporaneous portraits, but that&#039;s not altogether reliable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the &quot;Scipio Section&quot; in one of my trays, showing a lower grade small module AE plus a later Roman Republican Cn. Blasio denarius with a (possibly) posthumous depiction of him, and a denarius struck by one of his descendants, Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1500637[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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