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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3524494, member: 85693&quot;]Way back in 1989, I bought what I thought was one of the Piso Frugi 90 B.C. horseman issues - like the OP and others posted here.&nbsp; The seller was a reputable dealer, still around, who issued catalogs, like they did in the old days, but he made a mistake.&nbsp; I was pretty new at ancients, and the Internet wasn&#039;t available to civilians, but I had access to Crawford and after a while figured out I had a later issue from c. 67 B.C., coined by a son of the OP&#039;s moneyer - here is a note I made for myself at the time:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Moneyer is Gaius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, son-in-law to Cicero and son of Lucius Calpurnius Piso, from whom he inherited the Apollo-and-horseman types.</p><p>Sydenham dates coins in this series to c. 64 B.C.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I was actually happy about the error - the later issue is quite a bit scarcer than the Social War issue. </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, in 2017, I managed to get the 90 B.C. issue on the cheap on eBay.&nbsp; Here they both are - the reverse legends are the real giveaway here:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]936172[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Roman Republic Denarius </b></p><p><b>L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi</b></p><p><b>(90 B.C.) </b></p><p>Laureate head of Apollo right; symbol behind (T?) / L PISO FRVGI/CXV below horseman galloping right, carrying palm T• below. </p><p>Crawford 340/1; Syd. 665a; Calpurnia 11.</p><p>(3.70 grams / 19 mm)</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Roman Republic&nbsp; Denarius </b></p><p><b>C. Piso L.f. Frugi</b></p><p><b>(67 B.C.)&nbsp; </b></p><p>Head of Apollo right, bound with fillet; horse(?) behind / C. PISO L F FRV below, man on horse holding palm-branch galloping right; X above.</p><p>Cr. 408; Calpurnia 24 - 29a</p><p>(3.53 grams / 17 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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