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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2742672, member: 74834&quot;]In the Netherlands, where I grew up, King Philip II of Spain (1555-1598) was more or less the Big Bad Wolf, the man of the cruel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" rel="nofollow">80 Years War</a> that in the end liberated the Netherlands. However, that&#039;s a long time ago, no hard feelings, at all!</p><p>On the other hand, the Roman Empire was much, much longer ago, and I&#039;m interested in the earliest coins from my part of the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>In what was to be the Southern Netherlands lived the Celtic tribe of the Menapians. I&#039;m associating them with the Dutch city of Tilburg (my brother was born in Tilburg). There was one usurpator, the anti-emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carausius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carausius" rel="nofollow">Carausius</a>, in full Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Valerius Carausius, who was a Menapian. A smart man, maybe a bit of a pirate on the side, but for a time (287-293) he managed to be the king of Britain, sort of. Sadly enough, Carausius had a mean and untrustworthy accountant, who murdered his boss when he was in dire straits: Allectus. Soon Allectus perished, and that was that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a barbaric imitation of an antoninianus of Carausius, who must have been a large-jowled, thick-necked guy, so probably not a forefather of my family, he doesn&#039;t look one inch like my brother (<i>which raises the question: do you know anyone looking like one of the Roman emperors?</i>). </p><p>Anyway: here&#039;s the Emperor of Tilburg!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]626375[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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