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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 16866557, member: 104887&quot;]<b>Hi All,</b></p><p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>PUPIUS RUFUS (QUAESTOR)</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>CYRENAICA, UNCERTAIN MINT: PROBABLY PTOLEMAIS, </b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>ca 34 - 31 BCE</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Bronze As minted in Kyrenaica with A Publius Rufus as Propraetor and Quester, 34-31 BCE</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1535049[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Æ AS</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Size: 27x28 mm </b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Weight: 8.93 g</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Die Axis: 06:00</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Broucheion Collection C-2020-12-05.001</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>OBV:</b> Zeus-Ammon facing head right. Legend behind head: KAIT[AMIACL]. No border visible.</p><p><b>REV:</b> Sella castrensis between fasces. In the field: L; In right field: Λ. Legend above: ΠOYΠIOC; Legend below: ANTICTPAT. No border visible.</p><p><b>Refs:</b> Sv-UNLISTED; RPC-I 0920; Asolati 152/1-3 (closest to 152/3).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes From Jawarski (2009): </b>&quot;Aulus Pupius Rufus is a figure known solely thanks to coins struck in Cyrenaica. The office he held is designated as follows by Greek legends on bronze coins of the highest denomination: ANTICTPAT(HΓOC) KAI TAMIAC, and TAMIAC ANTICTPAT(HΓOC) as well as by images: the sella castrensis between fasces known from asses of Pupius Rufus is an attribute of a propraetor, and the sella quaestoria, hasta and sacculus found on the semisses of this official constitute the attributes of a quaestor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Traditionally the activity of Pupius Rufus is dated to a period between two other officials known from coins of Roman Cyrenaica: Crassus and Scato. However, there is no certainty as to the absolute dates of his term in office, although it is commonly agreed upon that it must have been before 27 BC when, as a result of the reorganisation conducted by Augustus, the province of Creta et Cyrene was included in the competencies of the senate, and the governor in charge of it was not, as before, a quaestor pro praetore, but a praetor pro consule.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pupius Rufus, like his predecessor Crassus, struck bronze coinage in three denominations: the as, the semis, and the quadrans. …</p><p><br /></p><p>The sella castrensis between fasces known from asses of Pupius Rufus is an attribute of a propraetor, and the sella quaestoria, hasta and sacculus found on the semisses of this official constitute the attributes of a quaestor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite the gradual increase of our knowledge of Cyrenaica in the time of Pupius Rufus, the extent of his coinage is still obscure. The evident differences in the known dies used to strike the individual coins of this official indicate the existence of at least a few issues of each type. Most probably, to a limited extent, minting activity was continued, not only in Cyrene, but also in Ptolemais after Crassus. Also the conclusions made to date about the coinage of subsequent Roman officials in Cyrenaica - Scato, Capito and Palikanus - await verification by archaeological discoveries.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><i>Next: Anything from North Africa.</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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