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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8228147, member: 26430&quot;]I&#039;ve got one of those &quot;Sack of Athens&quot; Tetradrachms being referred to at the end there. I haven&#039;t checked the original sources or anything, but I often see Plutarch cited as having written that these were called &quot;Lucullans&quot; (Λευκόλλεα I think). Here&#039;s a quote from CNG 456, 139 (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6483519" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6483519" rel="nofollow">acsearch record</a>):</p><blockquote><p><font size="4">Plutarch (Lucullus II.2), describes how Sulla&#039;s proquaestor L. Licinius Lucullus was put in charge of coinage on this expedition, and that he did such an fine job that the coins he made came to be named after him: &quot;...it was called &#039;Lucullan&#039; after him, and circulated very widely because the needs of the soldiers during the war caused it to be exchanged quickly.&quot; An inscription from Delphi concerning the sale of slaves echoes Plutarch: &quot;...they paid for these in one sum of a hundred and fifty &#039;flats&#039; of Lucullus...&quot;</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>My tetradrachm (different CNG sale, their photo). It was actually the final lot before&nbsp; part II of BCD&#039;s anonymous collection Athenian bronze, so I jokingly refer to it as &quot;Ex-BCD-Adjacent&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1446224[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Rounding out my Sullan lineup, a Venus &amp; Cupid / Two Trophies denarius (a partial inspiration for Ceasar&#039;s Venus &amp; Cupid / Trophies &amp; Two Captives?):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1446225[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, an enemy of Sulla: C. Marcius Censorius was among the “last men standing” in Sulla&#039;s Civil War, defeated and captured at the decisive Battle of the Colline Gate (Kalends of Nov. 82). Sulla had his severed head sent to what remained of the Marian army, which promptly deserted Marius the Younger, who then promptly committed suicide. </p><p><br /></p><p>Below I&#039;ve my own photo beneath a second photo I recently found of my coin in the Schaefer Binders on ANS/RRDP (though I&#039;m not yet sure what &quot;Long Island NOV 10&quot; is):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1446226[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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