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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2110150, member: 44132&quot;]Picked this up about a week ago.&nbsp; It&#039;s very nice in hand, with a nice weight to it for a denarius of it&#039;s time:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]398408[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]398409[/ATTACH] </p><p>L PHILIPPUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS MARCIA </p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; Head of Philip V of Macedon right, wearing diademed royal Macedonian helmet with goat horns; monogram of Roma behind, F below chin</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; L. PHILIPPVS on tablet below statue of equestrian, carrying laurel-branch; flower below horse; mark of value in exergue</p><p>Rome 113-112 BC</p><p>3.8g, 20mm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>Crawford 293/1; Sydenham 551</p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p>Lucius Marcius Philippus (c. 141–c. 73 BCE) was a Roman orator and one of the most important politicians of the late Roman Republic. His strenuous opposition to the reforms of Marcus Livius Drusus during his consulate of 91 BCE, in defense of the &quot;collusionist policy&quot; of the governing class with the publicani chiefs, was instrumental to the outbreak of the disastrous bellum Italicum, the Social War. This should have made him a natural Marian during the violent politics and civil wars of the 80s BCE, and he did well under the Marian government, holding high office. But he was more of an individualist and survivor than committed to any cause, and took advantage of the political amnesty offered by Sulla in 83 BCE to change sides. He had backed the winner and enjoyed a special eminence in the first decade after the civil wars as one of the few surviving men of consular rank, and Rome&#039;s pre-eminent orator since the death of Marcus Antonius Orator (late 87 BCE). Following Sulla&#039;s death (78 BCE) he played a key role in the suppression of the Lepidan rebellion (78–77 BCE).</p><p><br /></p><p>Philippus was one of the most distinguished orators of his time. His reputation continued even to the Augustan age, whence we read in Horace:</p><p><br /></p><p>Strenuus et fortis causisque Philippus agendis Clarus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cicero says that Philippus was decidedly inferior as an orator to his two great contemporaries Crassus and Antonius, but was without question next to them. In speaking he possessed much freedom and wit; he was fertile in invention, and clear in the development of his ideas; and in altercation he was witty and sarcastic. </p><p><br /></p><p>Philippus was a man of luxurious habits, which his wealth enabled him to gratify: his fish-ponds were particularly celebrated for their magnificence and extent, and are mentioned by the ancients along with those of Lucullus and Hortensius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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