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Serial Number: RAF2386
Status: Display
Description:
Ancient coin from Macedon minted in the time of Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
18MM, 4.87 Grams
Obverse Helmeted head of Athena to right.
Reverse Cow grazing to right, [F]AIOY and monogram above, below B monogram, [ITA]MIOY in exergue.
Moneyer Gaius Publlius, quaestor, circa 168–167
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Nothing else of the Quaestor Gaius Publlius is known but this coin was minted in Macedon under Roman rule during the time of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus. Aemilius (229 BC – 160 BC) was a two time consul of Rome during the republican period. He was the son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus who died during the famous disaster at the battle of Cannae. Aemilius was first consul in 182 BC and was sent in 181 to his proconsular command against the Ingauni of Liguria. He defeated and subjugated them and received a triumph. In 168 BC he was again elected Consul and given command in the third Macedonian War against King Perseus after previous Roman setbacks. On the 22nd June 168 BC he defeated Perseus at the battle of Pydna taking the King and his sons prisoner. The following year he was ordered to pillage Epirus due to their previous support of Perseus. He plundered 70 towns and took 150,000 slaves from Epirus to go with the treasures taken from Macedon. Upon his return to Rome he was awarded a grand triumph in which he paraded the immense plunder taken along with Perseus and his sons. He was also awarded the agnomen Macedonicus. He died in 160 BC whilst holding the office of Censor. He had four sons and deeming this to many to support through the cursus honorum he gave the eldest two in adoption. The eldest was Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus (consul 145 BC and victor in battle against Viriathus) and younger was Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (two time consul and sacker of Carthage and Numantia.) The younger two sons died young thus ending the line of the Aemilii Paulli due to the adoptions of the elder two.
This are gifted to RAF on the April 2th 2025
