Baebia gens - A plebian but consular family. Tamphilus, or, as it is written Tampilus, is the only surname that appears on its coins. Nepos in his life of Atticus mentions the Domnus Tumphiliana, which stood on the Quirinal at Rome. Morel, in Thesaur. Fam. Rom. gives eight varieties. The brass pieces are As, or parts of the As; or thay are colonial. The two following are rare in silver, the latter much the rarer, though not bearing so remarkable a reverse type as the former.
- Obverse: TAMPIL, winged head of Pallas; before it X; reverse: M BAEBI Q F ROMA, Apollo in a quadriga.
- Obverse: head of Jupiter; reverse: TAM in monogram, Victory crowning a trophy, below ROMA.
Q. Baebius Tamphilus, about the year 219 BC, was twice sent as ambassador to the Carthaginians for the purpose of expostulating with them on the subject of their attack on Saguntum; and at legnth declared war against them. Cn. Baebius Tamphilus was the first member of this family who served the office of consul (182 BC). |Marcus| Baebius Tamphilus, the son, by whom this denarius was struck, proceeded consul in 181 BC.