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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7604764, member: 115909&quot;]Helloooo everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>I was watching a documentary on the Roman Empire on Netflix (unimaginatively called “Roman Empire”) and it documents the lives of 3 different Emperors:</p><p><br /></p><p>1). Commodus</p><p>2). Julius Caesar</p><p>3). Caligula</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I watched the “Caligula” episodes and something caught my ear.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the university history professors was explaining how extravagantly Caligula was living, and how the Imperial Treasury was going broke because of it, so Caligula reinstated his predecessor Tiberius’ “Treason Trials” and targeted rich Senators so he could confiscate their wealth.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The professor states that Caligula spent 3</b><i><b> billion </b></i><b>sestercii during the first year of his reign.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Apparently a Sesterce was worth 1/4 of a denarius, so Caligula spent 750 million denarii in one year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway I think that was a crazy fact and I’m curious to see if anyone has cool sestercii to look at?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309320[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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