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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2653382, member: 51347&quot;]I really enjoy [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER] &#039;s ( EDITED: [USER=76194]@Sallent[/USER] &#039;s ) new JC.&nbsp; It is gorgeous, and I really like the added touch with a bankers mark!&nbsp; Add real history to it as it is KNOWN to have circulated!</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like that the Republican Rome tradition was anti-king.&nbsp; And they carried that further by not featuring portraits of living leaders on their coinage.&nbsp; I believe it was ONE nail in the coffin to Caesars demise that portrait coinage was minted during his lifetime...</p><p><br /></p><p>I also am of the camp that actually Publius Scipio Scipio, later Scipio Africanus - winner of the Battle of Zama to end the 2nd Punic War, was the first living Roman, albeit <b>&quot;unofficial issue&quot;</b>, to be featured on a Roman coin... AND, it was not SILVER (big distinction in Roman Coinage).</p><p><br /></p><p>I REALLY like this guy!</p><p><br /></p><p>Shown this one before... But it is struck in Carthago Nova, founded by Hasdrubal the Fair in 227 as a colony of Carthage. It was originally called QART HADASHT which is the same name the Carthaginians called their native city of CARTHAGE. Hasdrubal was a Barcid, and this was a major city in the area called Barcid Spain, which Carthage drew enormous military and financial (Bronze and Silver mines) rejuvenation after losing the First Punic War to Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, along came Publius Cornelius Scipio in 209 BCE to rain on the Carthaginians&#039; parade and conquered Carthago Nova!</p><p><br /></p><p>AE&#039;s of Publius Cornelius Scipio (before he was Africanus, and while in Spain), from Carthago Nova... <i>He was young and had been built up almost as a demi-god to politically oppose Hannibal&#039;s HUGE propaganda campaign in Italy against Rome... </i>This whipper-snapper &quot;figgered&quot; it all out as to how to counter the psychological effect that Hannibal had on the Romans AND Italians for so many years!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]587328[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic</p><p>Carthago Nova (Carthaginian city of Qart Hadasht) Roman Occupation by Scipio (later Africanus)</p><p>ca. 209-206 BCE</p><p>Bronze Unit</p><p>22.8mm, 9.1g</p><p>Carthago Nova mint</p><p>OBV: Bare head l, Roman style (Scipio?)</p><p>REV: Horse standing r</p><p>Rare</p><p>Sear/Seaby Vol 2 6575; SNG BM Spain 127-128; Burgos 552</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]587329[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic</p><p>Bronze 1/5 unit,</p><p>1.6g, maximum diameter 14.6mm, die axis 0o</p><p>Carthago Nova mint, weight, 209 - 206 B.C.</p><p>Obv: bare male head (Scipio Africanus?) left</p><p>Rev: horse head right</p><p>Ref: SNG BM Spain 129, Burgos 556</p><p>rare[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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