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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4783630, member: 110350&quot;]Nice coin! Here&#039;s one with a reverse that&#039;s very similar to your obverse, issued three years after yours.</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 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]1163291[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1163293[/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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