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56: Macedonia under the Romans, Stater gold

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.