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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3605300, member: 84744"]Great coin of a great period!  Here are some historically related: Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, Marius's tame tribune of the plebs who went too far and caused a massive riot that Marius had to quell.  Marius tried to stow Saturninus safely in the Curia, but some aristocrats killed him with roof tiles.[ATTACH=full]965256[/ATTACH]denarius, c. 104 BCE C. Fundanius, issued to celebrate Marius's victories over the Germans:[ATTACH=full]965259[/ATTACH]quinarius, c. 101 BCE L. Calpurnius Piso/Q. Servilius Caepio, foes of Gaius Marius (and Saturninus).  This coin was issued to mark the passage of the Marius/Saturninus populist law subsidizing grain for the people of Rome, just before the riot mentioned above.[ATTACH=full]965257[/ATTACH]denarius, c. 100 BCE L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, part of a huge issue to fund the Social War:[ATTACH=full]965263[/ATTACH] denarius, c. 90 BCE Mithradates VI of Pontus (as Perseus, slaughtering the Medusa of Rome), defeated by Lucullus and Sulla:[ATTACH=full]965260[/ATTACH]issued in Amisos, after 88 BCE Sulla, issued during his march on Rome:[ATTACH=full]965258[/ATTACH]denarius, c. 82 BCE For an entertaining semi-fictional history of the period, to my mind nothing beats Colleen McCullough's The First Man in Rome (Marius) and The Grass Crown (Social War & Sulla).[/QUOTE]