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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8063825, member: 110350&quot;]These are wonderful, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]! I voted for the Roman Republican coin (surprise!), the Antigonos, and the Philip V with Perseus.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a grand total of one coin depicting a Macedonian shield. I&#039;ve shown it before, but why not again?</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, M. Caecilius Q.f. Metelllus, AR Denarius, 127 BC (Crawford, RSC, Sear), ca. 126 BCE (Mattingly, op. cit. at p. 258, Table 3), Rome Mint. Obv. Head of Roma right in winged helmet, star on helmet flap, ROMA upwards behind, <b>*</b> (XVI ligature, mark of value = 16 asses) below chin / Rev. Macedonian shield, decorated with elephant head in center wearing bell, M METELLVS Q F around beginning at 6:00, all within laurel wreath. Crawford 263/1(a), Sydenham 480, RSC I Caecilia 29, Russo RBW 1064, Sear RCV I 139 (ill.). 19.5 mm., 3.80 g., 9 hr.*</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1397908[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*The coin is classified as Crawford 263/1a because the obverse &quot;ROMA&quot; legend goes upwards; the ROMA on 263/1b goes downwards. The moneyer was Consul in 115 BCE. The reverse design of a Macedonian shield encircled by a laurel wreath honors the moneyer&#039;s father, Q. Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, who defeated the Macedonian pretender Andriscus in 148 BCE. See Crawford p. 288, Sear p. 99. Sear calls the coin “an early example of a moneyer commemorating his family history” (id.), and Mattingly states that the moneyer “broke new ground by honoring a <i>living</i> father.” (See Harold B. Mattingly, “Roman Republican Coinage ca. 150-90 B.C.,” in <i>From Coins to History</i> (2004), pp. 199-226 at p. 220 [emphasis in original].)</p><p><br /></p><p>The elephant head in the center of the shield, as with other coins of the Caecilii Metelli, recalls the victory of L. Caecilius Metellus, Cos. 251, over Hasdrubal at the Battle of Panormus in 250 BCE, and the capture of 100 of Hasdrubal’s elephants, which were paraded at Metullus’s triumph. See Crawford p. 288 (referencing the discussion on p. 287 of the symbolism of the elephant head on the reverse of Crawford 262); Mattingly p. 219 &amp; n. 75.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, your leggy Athena is certainly enviable. (Says I at 5&#039;1&quot;!) However, I have a coin from Thessaly on which I would argue that her legs are even longer, since they don&#039;t appear to be interrupted by her bottom:</p><p><br /></p><p>Thessaly, Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Mid-late 1st century BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Italos and Diokles. Obv. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath, [ITAΛOY] [<i>behind head</i>, <i>off flan</i>] / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; ΔIO-KΛHΣ above spear, N-I across field. BCD Thessaly II 874.4 [CNG, <i>The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly</i>, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 874.4 (<i>this coin</i>)]; HGC 4, 210 [Hoover, Oliver, <i>Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series,Vol. 4</i> (2014)]; McClean II 4797-4798 [Grose, S., <i>Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Greek Coins, Fitzwilliam Museum, Vol. II, The Greek Mainland, the Aegean islands, Crete</i> (Cambridge, 1926)]. 20 mm., 6.09 g., 12 h. [<i>According to BCD: From Hoard found Dec. 1996, West of Karditsa,Thessaly, Greece.</i>]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1397910[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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