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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 24710558, member: 99456&quot;]Grazie, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]. I find the amount of attention on that the TikTok videos got this week entertaining.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER], I especially like your Sicinius (Crawford 440) celebrating Pompey and his defeat of Mithradates VI and the Cilician pirates as C. Marcellus charged him with the protection of Roman again - this time against Julius Caesar. Woytek is an excellent resource on these coins and he places this as normal issue before Caesar&#039;s occupation of Rome:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;The beginning of the minting of RRC 440 probably dates to the days at the end of the year 50, when the consul C. Marcellus commissioned Pompey with the protection of the state, and it will have been in progress at the time of the Senate&#039;s declaration of war on January 7, 4.&quot; </i></p><p>- Woytek, Arma et nummi, Forschungen zur römischen Finanzgeschichte und Münzprägung der Jahre 49 bis 42 v. Chr., pp. 96-97</p><p><br /></p><p>Four days later Caesar crossed the Rubicon and the Pompeians fled Rome.</p><p>Thanks you! An excellent Naevius Balbus, [USER=111067]@expat[/USER], from the end of my favorite period (lifetime of Sulla 138 - 79 BC) and celebrating Sulla&#039;s victory over Mithridates in 85 BC.&nbsp; The name &quot;Balbus&quot; was also the name of Octavian&#039;s grandfather and mother:</p><p><br /></p><p>Julius Caesar&#039;s youngest sister Julia married Marcus Atius Balbus. Their second daughter of three, Atia Balba Caesonia and her husband Gaius Octavius were parents to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, who became Julius Caesar&#039;s heir and subsequently emperor Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Octavian used the sphinx as his seal - which could also be a wordplay on Balbus: more here <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/roman-republican-sphinx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/roman-republican-sphinx" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/roman-republican-sphinx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks, [USER=80147]@Ancient Aussie[/USER], a nice coin that this still on my &quot;want list&quot;. Horrific violence was not unusual in Rome in the first century - not only against neighbors, but also against each other.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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