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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 3228350, member: 44132&quot;]This is my second coin of Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS, but it differs from the first.&nbsp; The reverse displays an elephant, so it adds to my parade of elephants in my collection.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]842405[/ATTACH]</p><p>Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS CAECILIA </p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; Diademed head of Pietas right; stork standing right before</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; Q C M P I beneath elephant walking left w/bell hanging from neck</p><p>Spanish Mint 81 BC</p><p>3.75g; 18mm</p><p>Caecilia 43; Crawford 374/1; Syd 750; Sear 301</p><p><br /></p><p>Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS is an interesting character.&nbsp; He was a pro-Sullan politician and general who was Roman consul in 80 BC. He was the principal Senatorial commander during the Sertorian War, fighting alongside Pompeius Magnus. He was given the agnomen “Pius” because of his constant attempts to have his father, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, officially recalled from exile.&nbsp; His father was the leader of the conservative faction of the Roman Senate and a bitter enemy of Gaius Marius. He served as consul for 109 BC, and was the chief commander in the Jugurthine War in Numidia until Marius displaced him. He later became a censor, entering into exile in opposition to Marius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Metellus Pius is a prominent character in the novels The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown and Fortune&#039;s Favorites by Colleen McCullough. In the novels he is characterised as having a stutter, and referred to by contemporaries, including Sulla, as “the Piglet”.</p><p><br /></p><p>He is also mentioned in John Maddox Roberts&#039; SPQR series as the fictional main character Decius Caecilius Metellus&#039; uncle.</p><p><br /></p><p>My other coin of Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]842410[/ATTACH]</p><p>Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS ROMAN REPUBLIC; GENS CAECILIA </p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; Diademed head of Pietas right, stork before</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; IMPER in exergue, lituus and jug, all within laurel wreath</p><p>Spanish Mint 81 BC</p><p>3.8g; 20mm</p><p>Crawford 374/2; Sydenham 751; Caecilia 44</p><p>Ex: Barry Murphy</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000">Post your coins of Q. CAECILIUS METELLUS PIUS, elephants or anything you deem related</span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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