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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1802404, member: 57463&quot;]I have two of these, both off-center. This is the better example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]293069[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]293070[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Porcius Cato was one of the republicans who resisted Gaius Julius Caesar. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon, the republicans fled.&nbsp; Cicero and Sulla Junior fled to Brundisium in Italy opposite Dyrrachium in Greece.&nbsp; Cato went to Utica in northern Africa.&nbsp; When the others were defeated,&nbsp; Caesar came to Utica.&nbsp; Rather than submit, Cato committed suicide.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse says Pro PR (for himself). The reverse is VICTRIX, with the TR as a ligature.</p><p>The coin is a quinarius, a half denarius.&nbsp; Cato provided his own silver for the issue to buy the loyalty of the citizens of Utica in resisting Caesar.&nbsp; The seated Victory was also the reverse of the coinage of Cato the Elder, also called Cato the Censor, who was the grandfather of this Cato.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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