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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2579909, member: 51347&quot;]VERY nice write up [USER=76194]@Sallent[/USER] !&nbsp; Hope you enjoyed your staycation; I was in the process of moving cross-country...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]559829[/ATTACH] </p><p>RR T Quinctius Flaminius 126 BC AR Den Roma Diosc galloping T-Q Macedon Shield Sear 143 Cr 267/1</p><p><br /></p><p>The same-name moneyer was the ancestor of T Quinctius Flaminius who was the comander who defeated Philip V of Makedon at the Battle of Cynocephalae, Thessaly in 197 BCE.&nbsp; This was a critical battle proving, along with the later Battle of Pydna in 168 BCE, that the Roman Legion was a superior battle formation over the Greek Phalanx</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand this was propaganda of the Dioscuri riding over or trampling the Makedon Shield.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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