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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7371476, member: 44316&quot;]The trial is a great and important story of corruption tolerated by senators because they benefited by bribery or hoped to benefit by that same sort of (bad) behavior when they got a province to govern. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the &quot;Glabrio&quot; of the coin from 49 BC is not the same Glabrio. A praetor in 70 BC would be far too old to be a moneyer in 49 BC. Crawford says of this type &quot;The moneyer is perhaps Mn. Acilus Glabrio, sister&#039;s son to M. Aelilius Scarus, Pr. 56&quot; and does not mention any connection with the Glabrio of the trial, although the name in common means they must be relatives of some sort. Harlan (<i>Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 63 BC - 49 BC</i>) thinks the type is from 50 BC and SALVTIS refers to the near-fatal illness and eventual recovery of Pompey. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my example:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1284266[/ATTACH]</p><p>Man. Acilus Glabrio, 49 BC. </p><p>18 mm. 3.72 grams.</p><p>Sear 412; Crawford 442/1a.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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