CRUCIFIER COLLECTION
167-149 BC, AE22, PELAGONIA
MACEDONIA UNDER ROME
HEAD OF POSIDON
/ CLUB IN OAK WREATH
*EX-RARE*
10.0 g, #40-XF
EF - Extremely Fine
An exceptional coin with just traces of wear on just the highest portions of the designs. Even minor features (if struck) are visible and complete. May have strike flaws, slight encrustation, minor scratches, piercings, slight bends, cracks, and may even have very small spots of corrosion. All but very minor flaws should be described, especially if a photograph is not provided.
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Between 167 and 149 BC, Macedonia was transformed from a monarchy into a Roman-occupied territory after the Third Macedonian War (168 BC). Rome abolished the monarchy, split the kingdom into four client republics (merides) to weaken it, banned trade and intermarriage between districts, restricted mining, and later annexed it completely as a province following the Fourth Macedonian War and defeat of Andriscus, according to reports by Wikipedia and the Artemis