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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4602753, member: 99456"]The coin in the OP coin is Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Imperator (Q.C.M.P.I) and has Crawford number 374/2. There must be something about this series that the post office doesn't like. Here is the companion coin 374/2 that I received after >3 months, a surprise, with cross-Atlantic shipping challenges. Although this coin is less rare by number of dies known, it is more in demand as ancient elephants are popular. Seeing the date on the OP also leads to the reflection that, this year, "Feb was a long time ago!"</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140039[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius</b>, 81 BC, AR Denarius, North Italian mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Diademed head of Pietas right; to right, stork standing right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>QCMPI Elephant walking left</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 374/1; Sydenham 750; Caecilia 43</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse recalls the capture of somewhere between 60 and 142 of Hasdrubal's war elephants by L. Caecilius Metellus in 251 BC in the First Punic War as the Carthaginians attempted to recapture Panormus (Palermo, Sicily). Polybius tells the story <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/1*.html#40" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/1*.html#40" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It would take another 10 years to get to a peace treaty - and that didn't last long before The Second Punic War, with another Hasdrubal and of course Hannibal crossing the alps with more elephants.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4602753, member: 99456"]The coin in the OP coin is Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius Imperator (Q.C.M.P.I) and has Crawford number 374/2. There must be something about this series that the post office doesn't like. Here is the companion coin 374/2 that I received after >3 months, a surprise, with cross-Atlantic shipping challenges. Although this coin is less rare by number of dies known, it is more in demand as ancient elephants are popular. Seeing the date on the OP also leads to the reflection that, this year, "Feb was a long time ago!" [ATTACH=full]1140039[/ATTACH] [B]Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius[/B], 81 BC, AR Denarius, North Italian mint [B]Obv:[/B] Diademed head of Pietas right; to right, stork standing right [B]Rev: [/B]QCMPI Elephant walking left [B]Ref: [/B]Crawford 374/1; Sydenham 750; Caecilia 43 The reverse recalls the capture of somewhere between 60 and 142 of Hasdrubal's war elephants by L. Caecilius Metellus in 251 BC in the First Punic War as the Carthaginians attempted to recapture Panormus (Palermo, Sicily). Polybius tells the story [URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/1*.html#40']here[/URL]. It would take another 10 years to get to a peace treaty - and that didn't last long before The Second Punic War, with another Hasdrubal and of course Hannibal crossing the alps with more elephants.[/QUOTE]
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