MACEDON, Roman Protectorate: Gaius Publilius, quaestor, c. 146-143 BCE, AE23. 11.61g, 23mm.
Obv: Helmeted head of Roma to right
Rev: ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ ΤΑΜΙΟΥ ΓΑΙΟΥ ΠΟΠΛΙΛΙΟΥ in oak wreath
SNG Cop. 1318, MacKay pl. III, 1, HGC 3, 1114
From the Severus Alexander collection; ex Obolos 7 lot 61, 09.07.2017 (hammer 100 CHF).

The dating of this issue is controversial. The older view is that it was issued in Macedon immediately following Aemilius Paullus's final defeat of Perseus in 168 BC, but its similarity to civic coinage produced in the first years of the Macedonian province argue for the later date we have adopted here (146-143).