Recent pick-up: 168-167 B.C. MACEDON, Amphipolis, (under Roman rule). Lucius Aemilius Paullus

[Topcat7]

Circa 168-167 B.C. MACEDON, Amphipolis, under Roman Rule. Time of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Æ21.6. (Gaius Puplilius, quaestor), .

Obv: Helmeted head of Roma right

Rev: MAKEΔONΩN TAMIOΥ ΓAIOΥ ΠOΠΛIΛIOΥ (MACEDON, QUAESTOR GAIUS PUPLILIUS) in three lines within oak wreath.

Ref: BMC 72; SNG Copenhagen 1320. 10.58g, 21.6mm, 

Edited August 19 by Topcat7

[Roman Collector]

Nice!!!

[red_spork]

This is a great example of this type, much nicer than the lesser example of the type I owned years ago. I sold my "quaestor" bronzes but I still have this nice example of the type that seemed to follow them and is often overstruck on the "quaestor" bronzes, as is this example (see 9-12 obverse for the back of Romas helmet):

Macedon under Roman Rule. Uncertain official(traditionally, D. Junius Silanus), Æ25 (9.96g), 167-165 BC. Facing mask of Silenos, wearing ivy wreath / MAKE/ΔONΩN in two lines, D above; all within oak wreath. MacKay, "Bronze Coinage In Macedonia, 168-166 BC," ANSMN 14 (1968), pl.III, 10; SNG Copenhagen 1324.

Overstruck on a quaestor bronze of Gaius Publilius or Lucius Fulcinnius as evidenced by the Roma obverse undertype remnants at 9-12 o clock obverse

Privately purchased from NeroNumi via Vcoins, 10 June 2022, ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung Auction 220, 11 March 2014, 1249

[NewStyleKing]

On 8/19/2023 at 11:33 AM, Topcat7 said:

Circa 168-167 B.C. MACEDON, Amphipolis, under Roman Rule. Time of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Æ21.6. (Gaius Puplilius, quaestor), .

Obv: Helmeted head of Roma right

Rev: MAKEΔONΩN TAMIOΥ ΓAIOΥ ΠOΠΛIΛIOΥ (MACEDON, QUAESTOR GAIUS PUPLILIUS) in three lines within oak wreath.

Ref: BMC 72; SNG Copenhagen 1320. 10.58g, 21.6mm, 

Very much in the flavour of the Lucullian Pseudo-Athenian NewStyles with monograms. These monograms have been decoded to read Lucullus Tamioy cf above.  I have no doubt that Robinson's unravelling is correct and Lucullus was basically echoing this Roman Makadonon type and the Aesillas type which had some precedent and thus acceptable.