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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 7973030, member: 74282&quot;]The coin I&#039;m sharing today is actually a denarius that I bought well over a year ago in April 2020 and for whatever reason it sat in my incoming and miscellaneous tray ever since without ever being photographed or catalogued until I recently re-discovered it. This coin has some really pleasing surfaces and details and I was really surprised how pretty it was in-hand compared to the seller&#039;s photos but I largely bought it because I found the obverse banker&#039;s mark really interesting. When I bought it, I couldn&#039;t recall ever seeing a quadripartite(4 part) banker&#039;s mark like this on any Roman Republic denarius - most are just simple letters, tick marks, shapes or squiggles. Since buying this a friend shared an example of a denarius with a similar, though smaller, quadripartite bankers mark, but try as I might I haven&#039;t been able to find too many others. I would be very interesting to see anything similar that other members here can share.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the type itself, Crawford says that this type was minted by L Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, brother of the Lepidus of Triumvirate fame. The obverse features Concordia, a likely reference to the <i>concordia ordinum</i>(literally &quot;harmony of the orders&quot;), central to Cicero&#039;s policy goals in 63 BC. The reverse alludes to the capture of King Perseus of Macedon by L. Aemilius Paullus during the Third Macedonian War. The allusion to the great feats of an ancestor is not unusual on Roman coinage of this period, but the moneyer is playing a trick here as he was not actually a descendent of Paullus. It&#039;s kind of a silly thing to do but given that the events were over a century in the past it may have fooled some.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1383264[/ATTACH]Roman Republic AR Denarius(3.98g), L Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, moneyer, 62 BC, Rome mint. Head of Concordia right, wearing veil and diadem; on left, PAVLLVS LEPIDVS upwards; on right, CONCORDIA downwards. Border of dots / Trophy; above, TER; on right, togate figure(L. Aemilius Paullus); on left, three captives (King Perseus of Macedon and his sons); in exergue, PAVLLVS. Border of dots. Crawford 415/1</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re still reading this post, I&#039;ve got one small request for you. This coin came with a cutout from a catalog that obviously refers to this coin, but try as I might I have not figured out what catalog this is from. It doesn&#039;t refer to Crawford, which most every seller today does, and the backside of the paper is referring to a coin of Caracalla, so it obviously isn&#039;t some huge sale, but if you recognize it or have any ideas what dealer this might be from, please let me know. It&#039;s a longshot but I&#039;d really like to find a better provenance than &quot;eBay, 2020&quot; since this thing looks like it&#039;s been in someone&#039;s trays for a long time</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1383274[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, feel free to share anything relevant[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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