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To: SunkenCiv
The hoard:

Swiss numismatist Hugo Doppler has identified a number of emperors stamped onto the coins: Aurelian (270-275), Tacitus (275-276), Probus (276-282), Carus (283-285), Diocletian (284-305) and Maximian (286-305). The newest coins are from the year 294.

8 posted on 11/20/2015 8:31:16 AM PST by Godebert
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To: Godebert

Aurelian is one of my favorite emperors, he was one of the never-say-die / get-er-done leaders, and precursor to the reunification under Diocletian. Naturally, he was assassinated by some corrupt dunghole.


12 posted on 11/20/2015 12:18:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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