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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7800044, member: 99456&quot;]Cato &quot;The Younger&quot;</p><p><b>Roman Republican, M. Porcius Cato</b>, denarius, 47-46 BC, Utica, North Africa</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Female bust draped right, M. CATO. PRO. PR. before</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Victory seated right, holding patera, VICTRIX, in exergue</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford : 462/1c (no ROMA on Obverse)</p><p><br /></p><p>His idea of &quot;victory&quot; over Caesar was a bit stoic.&nbsp; Plutarch gives a full story - I&#039;ll leave out the end, other than this: when offered intervention by a relative of Julius Caesar to broker a peace...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><i>Cato would not suffer him to do this. &quot;For if,&quot; said he, &quot;I were willing to be saved by grace of Caesar, I ought to go to him in person and see him alone; but I am unwilling to be under obligations to the tyrant for his illegal acts. And he acts illegally in saving, as if their master, those over whom he has no right at all to be the lord....&quot;&quot;</i></font></p><p><font size="4">-Plutarch Lives, <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/cato_minor*.html#66.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/cato_minor*.html#66.1" rel="nofollow">Life of Cato the Younger, 66.1 </a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>His coins are easily confused with those of his namesake (of uncertain relation), the M Porcius Cato of this coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1339367[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Republican, M. Cato</b>, AR denarius, 89 BC,</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Diademed and draped female bust r., behind, ROMA and below neck truncation, M CATO</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Victory seated right, holding patera in right hand and palm branch in left; below seat, ST and in exergue, VICTRIX</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 343/1c (ST below seat)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Edit:</b> for the identity of this M Cato, Crawford refers to Wiseman &amp; Rowland:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;M. Cato, father of Uticensis (Cato the Younger), was dead by 91, when his son was in the care of Livius Drusus (Plutarch, Cato Min. 1,1); another man</p><p>&nbsp;of the same name, descended from the Censor&#039;s first marriage, was an</p><p>&nbsp;ex-praetor who died in Transalpine Gaul at about the same time (Gellius</p><p>&nbsp;xiii, 20, 12); after the deaths of these two men, with no other M. Cato</p><p>&nbsp;alive except Drusus&#039; infant ward, it was unnecessary for the moneyer to</p><p>&nbsp;add his affiliation. He could have been a son of the ex-praetor or perhaps</p><p>&nbsp;a (younger) son of C. Cato M.f.M.n., cos. 114&quot;</p><p>- Crawford, M., &amp; WISEMAN, T. (1964). <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/42662591" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/42662591" rel="nofollow">The Coinage of the Age of Sulla</a>. <i>The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society,</i> <i>4</i>, 141-158.</p><p><b>and</b></p><p>This note on amphorae stamped &quot;M. Porcius&quot;: Rowland, R. (1969). <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4435085" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4435085" rel="nofollow">M. Porcius the Wine Merchant</a>. <i>Historia: Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte,</i> <i>18</i>(3), 374-375.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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