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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8220387, member: 87809&quot;]From CNG at last week&#039;s auction, was outbid on a few but won others that I really wanted. They were in my mail box today <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Pictures are all courtesy of CNG though they are not very good, possibly even worse than mine <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> - the coins are way more nicer in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Didn&#039;t have a Monophthalmos and I particularly liked the Artemis running under Zeus throne <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Kings of Macedon, Antigonos I Monophthalmos as Strategos of Asia, AR Drachm</p><p>Lampsakos, ca. 310-301 BC</p><p>4.19 g, 17 mm, 1h</p><p>Price 1387; ADM II Series XVIII; SNG Cop. 888.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Head of Alexander/Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck</p><p>Rev.: AΛEΞANΔΡ(OΥ) Zeus Aëtophoros seated left holding eagle with closed wings in r. hand, long scepter in l.; in left field, forepart of Pegasos left; below throne, Artemis Phosphoros running left with torch.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443553[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A Macedonian shield Half-unit which I already shared in this thread:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/show-us-your-first-and-last-acquisitions.393059/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/show-us-your-first-and-last-acquisitions.393059/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/show-us-your-first-and-last-acquisitions.393059/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443556[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And this lot of 5 Republican Denarii, of which I was most interested in the Papius denarius, though I enjoy all five, don&#039;t have the measurements yet:</p><p><br /></p><p>Decimius Flavus, Rome 150 BC, possibly issued by Gaius Decimius, ambassador to Crete in 171 BC, and as praetor peregrinus in 169</p><p><br /></p><p>Quintus Marcius Philippus, Rome 129 BC; much is not known about him. The horseman on the reverse is a Macedonian rider and at left there is a Macedonian helmet with goat’s horns, thus referring to the consul of 186 and 169 BC Quintus Marcius Philippus, who waged war against Macedonia during his second consulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quintus Fabius Labeo, Rome 124 BC, triumvir monetalis in 124 BC, was probably proconsul in Spain between 120 and 100 BC.&nbsp; Presumably the grandson of Quintus Fabius Labeo who was Consul in 183 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Lucilius Rufus, Rome 101 BC, much is not known about him; he might have been the brother of a senator in 101 BC named Manius Lucilius that&#039;s why I think that the letters on the reverse <i>M•LVCILI </i>may refer to the senator</p><p><br /></p><p>and Lucius Papius, Rome 79 BC. Control marks shallow cup - rhyton ending in a horse&nbsp; (Crawford 384/1, type 33 at</p><p><a href="https://bonannocoins.com/l_papius/l_papius_db.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bonannocoins.com/l_papius/l_papius_db.php" rel="nofollow">https://bonannocoins.com/l_papius/l_papius_db.php</a> where all the known Papius denarii varieties are listed</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443562[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443574[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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