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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4906356, member: 19463&quot;]Vespasian benefitted by reminding people that he was a good man for the job of restoring the good old days of Roman glory like Roman grandpa&#039;s related in tales of life before Nero.&nbsp; I wonder if those Roman grandpa&#039;s bored kids with stories about the day when Caligula was killed as I do? (Who wants to hear what I was doing the day President Kennedy was shot? ---- I didn&#039;t think so.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite reminder of days past is the replica denarius of Antony legionary style issued by Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus 200 years after Actium.&nbsp; That year, the emperors could point to how much better off folks were because they had had&nbsp; series of &#039;good&#039; emperors leading up to the current day.&nbsp; No grandpa was alive that remembered that time but stories remained.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183833[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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