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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 6364988, member: 99456&quot;]Thanks, all, for the gallery of Sullan examples!&nbsp; [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] - now that you have an L. Philippus as your avatar, are you turning Roman republican?</p><p><br /></p><p>For me it does seem easy to imagine that health was at least a contributing factor. His wife Caecilia Metella died ~80 BC too.&nbsp; And then there is Plutarch&#039;s <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0064%3Achapter%3D35%3Asection%3D4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0064%3Achapter%3D35%3Asection%3D4" rel="nofollow">story of Valeria</a> and his descriptions of <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0064%3Achapter%3D36%3Asection%3D2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0064%3Achapter%3D36%3Asection%3D2" rel="nofollow">disease ridden Sulla</a>, which do get colorful.</p><p>With a&nbsp; NewStyle already on my wish list - now a rare Pseudo-Athenian must be added <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Yours is a nice example of this issue that is rarely beautiful in my view.&nbsp; But is does have &quot;L SVLLA&quot; on the obverse...[ATTACH=full]1251772[/ATTACH]</p><p>and here are the other two 127 BC coins that were &quot;restored&quot;, I don&#039;t have the 82-80 BC versions.</p><p>Crawford 263 (M. Caecilius Q.f. Q.n. Metellus)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1251777[/ATTACH]</p><p>Crawford 264 (C. Servilius Vatia)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1251781[/ATTACH]</p><p>a nice ex Andrew McCabe denarius, and I suspect that Diocletian would not have invited comparison to Sulla - but, I stray from anything knowable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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