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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3512583, member: 99456&quot;][USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] - thanks for the interesting write-up and coin!&nbsp; With your post and the added note from [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER], I will be on the watch for one of these.&nbsp; While I have no big bronze coins (or small bronze coins of Rhodes) I will share a coin from circa 88 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.historyhit.com/timeline-marius-and-sulla/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.historyhit.com/timeline-marius-and-sulla/" rel="nofollow">At this time</a> in Rome, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, having brought to an end the first social war, was elected consul and prepared to lead his armies against Mithridates IV.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.ancient.eu/Gaius_Marius/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ancient.eu/Gaius_Marius/" rel="nofollow">Marius</a> (about age 70) feeling under recognized for his contributions in the war with the socii, demanded that he lead the armies against Mithridates.&nbsp; This led Sulla to the unprecedented step of marching into Rome with his legions, degrading the authority of the senate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sulla declared Marius and his followers enemies of the state, and they fled Rome for Africa.&nbsp; Sulla then proceeded with his original plan to head east and fight Mithridates IV of Pontus in the <a href="https://mycountryeurope.com/history/mithridates-rome-war/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://mycountryeurope.com/history/mithridates-rome-war/" rel="nofollow">First Mithr<font size="3">i</font>datic War</a>.&nbsp; He eventually signed a treaty with Mithridates:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">&quot;...terms of agreement were made as follows: Mithridates was to renounce Asia and Paphlagonia, restore Bithynia to Nicomedes and Cappadocia to Ariobarzanes, pay down to the Romans two thousand talents, and give them seventy bronze-armoured ships with their proper equipment; Sulla, on his part, was to confirm Mithridates in the rest of his dominions, and get him voted an ally of the Romans.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="3">-<a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sulla*.html#22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sulla*.html#22" rel="nofollow">Plutarch Life of Sulla 22</a></font></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><b>[ATTACH=full]931678[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Caius Marcius Censorinus</b>, 88 BC. AR Denarius</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Laureate head of Apollo right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Horse galloping right; wheel and two stars above, palm branch in exergue</p><p><b>Ref (edited): </b>Sydenham 714; Marcia 19</p><p>The Marcia gens claimed to descend from ancient kings of Rome, Numa Pompilius and Ancus Marcius. C. Marcius Censorinus, was one of the leaders of the Marian party.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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