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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8101972, member: 115909&quot;]Thanks singig! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I’m glad to see some love for the Quadrigatus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually they don’t seem to get the love they deserve for a coin minted so far back in Rome’s history.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Romans who used the Quadrigatus were the model well disciplined Romans full of civic virtue and with a disdain for luxury that later generations during the Roman Empire idolized and tried to emulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in those days they still even used the feared &amp; notorious punishment of “decimation”.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a legion, cohort, etc., was found to have behaved with cowardice or mutinied or deserted or was insubordinate the General would take the unit and pick out every 10th man from among the legion, cohort, etc.. These men were then stabbed, bludgeoned, strangled to death by his fellow soldiers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Crassus is known to have used it at least once during the war with Spartacus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mark Antony used it after his defeat at Media as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Julius Caesar threatened to decimate the 9th legion during the war with Pompey but (fortunately) he never did it.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is especially awful is that there was no individual blame. A Roman legionary could have killed 100 enemy soldiers and been the bravest &amp; most skilled warrior to ever fight for Rome but could still be decimated by random luck of the draw if his unit was punished with decimation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh yeah and the surviving 9 of 10 men would then be forced onto a ration of barley instead of wheat and they had to sleep outside the camp fortifications (aka unprotected).</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately is was eventually banned by Emperor Maurice who rightfully believed that telling soldiers to kill their brothers in arm would lead to a collapse in morale and potential mutiny.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway the reason I say all this is because the Romans of the Republic were tough people (almost like Spartans) and it’s so cool to have a coin they would’ve used.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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