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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5418304, member: 85693&quot;]So that&#039;s what those look like!&nbsp; Lovely.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is so wretched it is hard to see what it is - but it is <i>historical</i>, if nothing else:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1235128[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Marcus Porcius Cato </b></p><p><b>Uticensis</b></p><p><b>(47-46 B.C.) - Africa mint</b></p><p>M • CATO • PRO • PR, wreathed head of Liber right / [VICTRIX], Victory seated right, holding patera.</p><p>Porcia 11; Crawford 462/2.</p><p>(1.53 grams / 14 mm)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;In stark contrast with Scipio, coinage of Porcius Cato virtually ignores the African realities of war against Caesar. His denarius and quinarius issues, depicting, Roma/Libertas and Liber on the obverse and the same seated Victory on the reverse (Cr. 462/1,2) represent a revival of earlier, almost identical, issues by another M. Porcius Cato, moneyer of 89 B.C....If Scipio presents a Rome willing to adapt, Cato presents&nbsp; the illusion of a Rome utterlyRepublican and utterly unchanged.&quot;</p><p>Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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