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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2686681, member: 51347&quot;]Nice [USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER] !&nbsp; NICE turnaround from your initial Greek frustration!&nbsp; I was hit for a fake on here once, and it is like your stomach falls through the floor....</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to pile on a Roman Provincial from the Greek world for a &quot;different&quot; coin that I do not see posted often...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]601821[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Imperatorial</p><p><b>Publius Quinctilius Varus</b> 5-4 BCE</p><p>AE20 8.0g Tetrachalkon</p><p>Zeus</p><p>Tyche Orontes</p><p>Antioch Yr ZK&nbsp; RPC 4252 SNG Cop 92</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the guy who lost the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 3 legions, and 3 standards in 9 CE.&nbsp; Afterwards, Emperor Augustus lamented this loss until his death.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;Quintili Vare, legiones redde!&quot;&nbsp; </b>(Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Quinctilius_Varus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Quinctilius_Varus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Quinctilius_Varus</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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