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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8473194, member: 26430"]Yes, you are correct that Scipio Africanus (the first one, there were some others later!) lived  c. 150-200 years before Julius Caesar (the last one, there were some others earlier!). But: A. Scipio is often proposed as the first Roman to have placed his bust on a coin (that opinion is far from unanimous). I think [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER] and I assumed your list starts with J.C. because he was the first. If there was an earlier one you might push the starting line back. Then again, not only is it uncertain, but Scipio was "only" a General not Emperor, so whether to include him might depend on: (1) whether you believe it's him; (2) whether you're including only rulers, like Caesar, or all "people"; and, finally, (3) whether you'd include a coin that was actually struck in Spain, so it's not really a Roman Republic coin, maybe a Roman Provincial at best. And: B. Scipio probably was portrayed posthumously on the Roman Republican denarius of Cn. Bursio. (Top left in my red tray photo above.)[/QUOTE]