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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7771562, member: 99456&quot;][USER=121618]@MaryContrary[/USER], your C.Plutius (<a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-278.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-278.1" rel="nofollow">Crawford 278/1</a>) from 121 BC, when a crowd supporting Gaius Gracchus (brother to Tiberius) killed Quintus Antyllius - a story told with opposite sympathies by Plutarch (pro-Gracchus) and Appian (anti-Gracchus). This gave consul Lucius Opimius and the senate an excuse to take arms against Gaius. In the end Gaius was either killed or committed suicide.&nbsp; More here: <a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/social-reforms-in-the-roman-republic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/social-reforms-in-the-roman-republic" rel="nofollow">The Gracchi Brothers and Social Reforms</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll add another Antiaticus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1332788[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>P. Maenius Antiaticus M.f.</b>, 132 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Helmeted head of Roma right; mark of value to left</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Victory driving quadriga right, holding goad, reins, and wreath; P • (MAE) (ANT) below horses</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-249.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-249.1" rel="nofollow">249/1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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