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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Republic| > |211-100 B.C.| > RR92187
Roman Republic, Anonymous (2nd Star Series), 169 - 158 B.C.
|211-100| |B.C.|, |Roman| |Republic,| |Anonymous| |(2nd| |Star| |Series),| |169| |-| |158| |B.C.|, On 22 June 168 B.C., at the Battle of Pydna (in southern Macedonia) Roman forces under Lucius Aemilius Paulus decisively defeated Perseus and his Macedonian forces, ending the Third Macedonian War. Perseus was captured spent the rest of his life in captivity at Alba Fucens, near Rome. The Macedonian Kingdom was broken up into four smaller states. All the Greek cities which offered aid to Macedonia, even just in words, were punished. Rome took hundreds of prisoners from the leading families of Macedonia, including the historian Polybius.
RR92187. Bronze as, Schaefer-McCabe p. 102, fig. 6 (period 2); Crawford 196/1; Sydenham 264; BMCRR Rome 461; Russo RBW 842; SRCV I 693, F, scratches, light corrosion, Rome mint, weight 24.242g, maximum diameter 30.9mm, die axis 90o, 169 - 158 B.C.; obverse laureate bearded head of Janus, I (mark of value) above; reverse galley prow right, short fat curved prow-stem, rostrum tridens, flat roofed deck structure, apotropaic eye on side of hull, star above, I (mark of value) right, ROMA below with A closed by horizontal bar; scarce; SOLD











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