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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2199501, member: 74282&quot;]<img src="http://gallery.jordanmontgomery.us/upload/2015/07/22/20150722001824-e7517b49.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic A. Postumius A.f. Sp.n. Albinus. AR Denarius serratus (18mm, 3.72g). 81 BC. Rome mint. Head of Hispania right, wearing veil; behind, HISPAN downwards. Border of dots / Togate figure with right hand raised, standing between legionary eagle and fasces with axe around, A • POST • A • F • S • N • ALBIN. Border of dots. Crawford 372/2; Sydenham 74; RSC Postumia 8.</p><p><br /></p><p>After wrestling with USPS for two days only to find out they put the package in my neighbor&#039;s mailbox I finally managed to get my CNG win from last week. This is one of the Republican types where a moneyer celebrated the achievements of a famous ancestor. According to Crawford, the reverse &quot;Combining a togate figure on one hand with an eagle and the fasces on the other hand, perhaps simply alludes to civilian and military imperium; taken with the obverse type the reference is doubtless to the Spanish command of L. Postumius Albinus&quot;(Crawford, RRC p. 389). The L. Postumius Albinus referenced was an ancestor of this moneyer who was praetor in 180 BC and given the province of Hispania Ulterior and after conquering two of the tribes there triumphed in 178 BC before being elected consul in 173 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show me your serrate denarii! This is my first but I doubt it will be my last with the Republican kick I&#039;ve been on lately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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