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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 3032276, member: 44132&quot;]Today marks my wife&#039;s and my 50th wedding anniversary.&nbsp; It was a snowy March 23, 1968 when we said our nuptials.&nbsp; I suppose one might say we have beaten the odds to have lasted this long.</p><p><br /></p><p>In celebration of this momentous occasion, here are events in the Roman Empire that transpired in 50 AD:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Cologne is raised to the status of a city.</p><p>- Romans learn the use of soap from the Gauls.</p><p>- Utrecht is founded, and a Roman fortification (castellum) is constructed at the Rhine border in the present-day Netherlands.</p><p>- Claudius adopts Nero.</p><p>- In Judea a Roman soldier seizes and burns a Torah-scroll. Procurator Cumanus has the culprit beheaded, calming down the Jews and delaying for two decades the outbreak of their revolt.[1]</p><p>- In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula begins his campaign against the recalcitrant Silures of south Wales, who are led by the former Catuvellaunian prince Caratacus. London (Londinium), Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum), Tripontium (near modern Rugby) and the fort of Manduessedum (near modern Atherstone) are founded (approximate date).</p><p>- Roman emperor Claudius appoints Agrippa II governor of Chalcis.</p><p>- Romans build a wooden bridge across the Thames in the London area.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just so this is about coins:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]755716[/ATTACH] </p><p>NERO</p><p>AR Drachm</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; NERO CLAVD DIVI CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GERM, laureate head of Nero right.</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; DIVOS CLAVD AVGVST GERMANIC PATER AVG, Claudius&#039; laureate head right</p><p>Struck at Caesarea, Cappodocia, 63/4AD</p><p>3.6g, 17mm</p><p>RIC 621, RSC 3, RPC 3648[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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