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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7533321, member: 87809&quot;]More from the time of the decline. </p><p><br /></p><p>A new arrival, a Gaius Porcius Cato denarius, who was the grandson of Cato the Censor. Don&#039;t know how Gaius Cato was related to Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger), different Praenomina but they had the same Nomen and Cognomen. </p><p><br /></p><p>Gaius betrayed Gaius Gracchus in the late 120s BC and was elected consul (posterior) in 114, alongside the plebeian Manius Acilius Balbus (consul prior). Cato, as consul in 114 BC, was assigned Macedonia as his province, which was normally given to a praetor. He fought unsuccessfully against the Scordisci, the first Roman defeat in a generation. As was customary with defeated commanders, Cato was not prorogued in his province and he returned to Rome in 113 BC. He was accused of extortion in Macedonia under the provision of the Lex Acilia Repetundarum, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 8,000 Sestertii. However, he kept his seat in the Senate and remained politically active. He was sued again in 109 BC by a special court set up to investigate the bribes received by Roman politicians. Cato may have not even waited for the result of the trial and went into exile at the less civilized town of Tarraco in Spain. He became a citizen of that town and presumably died there.</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Denarius, Rome 123 BC</p><p>3.78 g, 17.5 mm, 6h</p><p><br /></p><p>Crawford 274/1; Sydenham 417; Porcia 1; RBW 1096;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) at left, border of dots.</p><p>Rev.: Victory driving galloping biga right, holding reins and whip; C•CAT ROMA</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture from CNG:</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1300690[/ATTACH] </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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