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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1762845, member: 19463&quot;]People who write coin descriptions tend not to be very creative.&nbsp; This is &quot;Victory left with wreath and palm.&quot;&nbsp; The large wreath is weak on mine and takes up a large space between the&nbsp; O and R of VICTORIA.&nbsp; The palm is very curved as is the body of Victory making the whole effect rather like Victory is struggling against a heavy wind.&nbsp; </p><p>I&#039;ll expand my opinion of the man:&nbsp; Marius is about as inconsequential a ruler as ever issued a Roman coin.&nbsp; He may have lasted three months rather than three days but I&#039;m not sure I see how history would have been altered ha he never lived.&nbsp; There were several other equally insignificant self-proclaimed rulers and a couple of them issued coins so Marius may be the most common absolute nobody in the Roman catalog.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wonder how many others lived and died but did so with neither written notice or a single surviving coin.&nbsp; I wonder why Marius&#039; Victory is more curved than most.&nbsp; I wonder too much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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