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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6574305, member: 110350&quot;]Thank you, [USER=83175]@akeady[/USER]. Nice! I very much like the elephant biga, and don&#039;t think the photo is bad at all. I hardly ever see that type available. Also, I had no idea that the Macedonian shield/elephant head reverse of Crawford 263 was &quot;reissued&quot; years later with Apollo on the obverse, as Crawford 369, by another member of the family -- M. Metellus Q.f.&nbsp; Direct copies of earlier issues weren&#039;t that common in the Republic, I think. According to Crawford (pp. 387-388), the evidence indicates that this (and the next two issues [370 &amp; 371], copying Crawford 264 and 265) were Sullan issues. &quot;The purpose of the three &#039;restored&#039; issues was perhaps to enable Sulla to issue a civil coinage without appointing a new triumvirate of moneyers for 82, perhaps to celebrate the restoration of the Republic in 80, after the abdication of the dictatorship, in any case to honour his most noble and senior supporters&quot; including members of the Caecilii Metelli family. (Citations omitted.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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