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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 26082789, member: 99456&quot;]Falling for a coin this week prompts a deep dive on Juno Sospita, Sulla relinquishing dictatorship in 80 BC, and Procilius - possibly a senator turned murderer? and from there it seems that even the founding of Pompeii as a Roman colony could be relevant....</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1661721[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here&#039;s the full story:</p><p><a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/sulla-relinquishes-the-dictatorship" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/sulla-relinquishes-the-dictatorship" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/sulla-relinquishes-the-dictatorship</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Only barely related as another contributor to the decline of Roman politics and evidence that a healthy EPA could be useful - you may enjoy reading:</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419630121" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419630121" rel="nofollow">Pan-European atmospheric lead pollution, enhanced blood lead levels, and cognitive decline from Roman-era mining and smelting by Joseph R. McConnell et al.</a></p><p>Roman-era mining and smelting raised atmospheric lead pollution and blood lead levels (BLLs) leading to cognitive decline across the Roman Empire. Arctic ice-core data, atmospheric modeling, and modern epidemiological approaches are used by the authors in their estimate of a 2.5 to 3-point reduction in IQ across Roman Europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lead emissions were primarily from silver and lead mining in Iberia, Gaul, and the Balkans, which were crucial to the Roman economy - and the silver denarii that we enjoy in this forum. Declines in silver content in Roman coins align with reductions in lead pollution.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Post your coins of Procilius, coins from 80 BC, a beautiful denarius, anything else that you find interesting or entertaining.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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