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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 6897247, member: 91461&quot;]Supposedly the descendant of the Brutus who chased tyrants out of Rome hundreds of years before. Son of a consul and general and related to the Gens Caecilia on his mother&#039;s side. Sounds like he is gonna set the ancient world on fire...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272949[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But his life was more like another type of fire...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272946[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Talk about being a born loser. Just like his dad, also named Servilius, our Servilius would lose an entire army (though, you could say that his dad lost 2 armies on account of his unwillingness to work with his Sr officer due to him being a novus homo) while fighting what he would have considered inferiors, due to his massive ego. Though, unlike his pops, whom was banished from Rome and forbidden fire and water within eight hundred miles of the city, the younger Servilius would die in battle along with his troops at the hands of the Marsi during the second year of the Social Wars.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272948[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Good thing nothing could further besmirch his good name. Oh, other than his daughter Servilia being a known adultress and lover of Julius Caesar. She was said to be &quot;The love of Caesar&#039;s life&quot;! Whoever said that never saw Julius look into a mirror.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272947[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Not bad, JC!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh yeah, and his grandson betraying and then murdering that great man (though you could say that was an act of honor) after Caesar had saved his life (and was even rumored to be his actual father).</p><p><br /></p><p>(Insert Image of Ryro&#039;s Eid Mar here: Image missing)</p><p><br /></p><p>Before the social war and his untimely demise, in 103 BCE Servilius was made quaestor urbanus which put him in charge of the Roman treasury and in charge of minting coins.</p><p>Happy to say that in the last Nomos Obols auction I was able to nab one such coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272931[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Q. Servilius Caepio, 100 BC.</b> Denarius (Silver, 19.5 mm, 3.87 g, 11 h), Rome. PISO · / CAEPIO · Q Laureate head of Saturn to right; behind, harpa; below, trident. <i>Rev.</i> AD · FRV · EMV / EX · S · C Two quaestors seated left on stools between two wheat stalks. Babelon (Calpurnia) 5. Crawford 330/1a. Sydenham 603. Die-break on obverse<i>, otherwise,</i> very fine.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Trausnitz Collection, ex G. Hirsch 187, 19 September 1995, 865</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Purchased from Nomos Obols Feb 2021</i></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This silver denarius was minted in Rome by Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus and Quintus Servilius Caepio in 100 BC. It was a special issue, authorised by the Senate and minted by the quaestors.</p><p>The obverse portrays Saturn, the god of agriculture, with a laurel wreath and braided beard. Behind him is a harpa (a sickle-shaped sword) and below him a trident. Around Saturn is the inscription &#039;PISO. CAEPIO. Q&#039;, referring to the quaestors.</p><p>Q. Caepio was a quaestor (financial official) who objected to a proposal to let the people buy corn at a reduced rate. The proposal was carried, and the Senate ordered the quaestors to strike this special issue in order to comply with the measure.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So please post your coins of Servilius, the Social war, reverse of coins that look like two guys roasting hot dogs over an open fire, thoughts or anything else related![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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