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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3897557, member: 99456&quot;][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] - your posts and coins are consistently interesting and entertaining!&nbsp; This coin seems in keeping with your OP : the key feature of the type – the Macedonian shield on the reverse.&nbsp; Not to mention that the type celebrates Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, father of the moneyer.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">In 148 Q. Caecilius Metellus crushed the pretender to the Macedonian throne, Philip &quot;Andriscus,&quot; who had managed in the previous year or two not only to establish his authority in Macedonia itself (where in 167 the Roman-imposed republican system had replaced the ancient monarchy) but even to make incursions into Thessaly. Metellus proceeded to pacify the area, removing another pretender in the process, and in 146 (probably) returned to Rome to a well-deserved triumph and the triumphal cognomen Macedonicus.</font></p><p><font size="3">- Kallet-Marx, Robert. <a href="https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1x0nb0dk&amp;chunk.id=d0e790&amp;toc.depth=1&amp;toc.id=d0e790&amp;brand=ucpress" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1x0nb0dk&amp;chunk.id=d0e790&amp;toc.depth=1&amp;toc.id=d0e790&amp;brand=ucpress" rel="nofollow">Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C.</a> Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1027607[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>M. Caecilius Q.f. Q.n. Metellus</b>, 127 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Helmeted head of Roma right, ROMA upward behind; mark of value below chin</p><p><b>Rev:</b> M.METELLVS.Q.F. around Macedonian shield with elephant&#039;s head in central boss, surrounded by laurel wreath</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 263/1a; Sydenham 480; Caecilia 29[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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