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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7655455, member: 110350&quot;]That&#039;s a truly beautiful example, with the design and legends more complete than 90+% of the other examples I&#039;ve seen. I can&#039;t figure out what&#039;s special about your old example that makes you want to keep it, except that the second line of the legend in the reverse exergue is visible, which is not the case for your new example.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided some time ago to abandon any idea of trying to buy an example of this type -- I admit that I&#039;m not crazy about the &quot;busy&quot; design, and it&#039;s just too difficult to find one without substantial missing portions. Instead, I&#039;m content with my example of a different type, issued three years after yours with a reverse design that&#039;s clearly modeled directly after the obverse of yours, but isn&#039;t as cluttered. Making it much easier to find a decent specimen! (Even though Cybele has an unfortunate skin condition.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Aulus Plautius, AR Denarius, 55 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Turreted head of Cybele right, A. PLAVTIVS before, AE[D CVR S C] behind [<i>portion in brackets off flan</i>] / Rev. “Bacchius the Jew” [<i> = Aristobulus II of Judaea?</i>],* in attitude of supplication, kneeling beside saddled camel (dromedary - one hump) standing right, extending olive-branch with right hand and holding camel’s bridle with left hand, his cape flowing behind him; BACCHIVS in exergue, IVDAEVS on right. RSC I Plautia 13, Crawford 431/1, Sydenham 932, Sear RCV I 395 (ill.), Harlan, RRM II Ch. 18 at pp. 145-149, BMCRR 3916. 18x20 mm., 4.25 g.&nbsp; (<i>Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 211th Buy or Bid Sale, May 2020, Lot 183</i>.) </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316110[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>* </i>See Sear RCV I at p. 148: “Aulus Plautius strikes as curule aedile. The problematic interpretation of the reverse type appears to have been most successfully resolved by [Michael] Harlan in RRM [see <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 63 BCE-49 BCE </i>(2nd Revised Edition 2015), Ch. 18 at pp. 146-148] . . . who identifies the kneeling figure as Aristobulus [= Judah Aristobulus II of the Hasmonean Dynasty, d. ca. 49 BCE], the Jewish high priest, then held captive by Pompey in Rome.”<i>&nbsp; </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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