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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1395815, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t buy it.&nbsp; Moneyer was a minor step in a sequence of positions that led to higher office including Consul.&nbsp; Removing names of these magistrates strikes me as inconsequential compared to the steps replacing the Republic with the Empire.&nbsp; This had been going on for quite some time before Augustus came along.&nbsp; I would hardly call his actions insidious but the natural development from Caesar, Pompey and Antony but not his evil invention.&nbsp; This is a question for a political historian. I&#039;m just a coin collector.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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