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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 1822640, member: 44316&quot;]I like late Roman copper. You and see I do on my site:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/</a></p><p>For the primary ancient source for Valentinian and Valens, see Ammianus Marcellinus: The Later Roman Empire (AD. 354-378) translated by Walter Hamilton, Penguin Books, 1986 (which is very inexpensive). Books 26-31 cover Valentinian I through the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople. This is 130 pages of an original ancient source. Highly recommended.</p><p><br /></p><p>Right now I am reading &quot;Justinian&#039;s Flea&quot; by William Rosen. (Justinian was Byzantine emperor, 527-565.) It is subtitled &quot;Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe.&quot; I am enjoying it.</p><p><br /></p><p>For bedtime reading a few minutes at a time I read &quot;A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World&#039;s Greatest Empire,&quot; by J. C. McKeown.&nbsp; It is great fun with fascinating paragraphs, many attributed to various ancient authors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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