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The last coin in my dream collection. A gold stater with the portrait
of Quinctius Flamininus, the victor of the battle of Kynoskephalae.
The die was possibly made by the same artist who made the die for
the previous coin of Philip V, or at least from the same group of
artists. Compare the beards and you see they are clearly very similar.
But the Greek engraver could not picture a Roman general looking
like a Greek king. Therefore, he depicted him as a serious, almost
fierce looking warrior and military leader. Yet nonetheless: this
is the last important Greek masterpiece, made by a Greek die engraver,
but on a Roman coin. On the reverse, there are the Latin letters,
Quincti (for Quinctius Flamininus). And so, this is the last coin
of the collection of Greek coins I am dreaming of.
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