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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2723824, member: 19463&quot;]The way they looked at it, this meant, &quot;I have vowed to be a good emperor for a period of 20 years.&quot; It is rather like a President of the US including a promise in his Inauguration speech vowing to be good for four years.&nbsp; Some coins had two dates like VOT X MVLT XX which can be read as a promise to be as good for the second ten as he was for the first.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla was co-emperor at the time but used only X since he started later:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]617762[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For the whole, the emperors played it fast and loose with the numbers and we should not get too strict in the math shown on these coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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