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Message:: [QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4053675, member: 99456"]Amazing solar closeup. Here's a sun - beating a captive with a bow and olive branch?  I guess that's one way to broker peace.[ATTACH=full]1062154[/ATTACH]Aurelianus, AE Antoninianus, Rome, Issue 11, early - September 275Obv: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, Bust B1 right, radiate, cuirassedRev: ORIENS AVG, Sol walking right, holding olive branch in right hand and bow in left hand, left foot resting on a captive in oriental dress kneeling on the ground to right, head turned left, right hand raised.   Δ/–//XXIR, Sol 8Ref: <a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/1819?tempRIC=&asmSelect0=&Reign=Aurelianus&asmSelect1=&asmSelect2=&asmSelect3=&asmSelect4=&asmSelect5=&asmSelect6=&Titulature=IMP+AVRELIANVS+AVG&asmSelect7=&Legend=ORIENS+AVG&asmSelect8=&asmSelect9=&ReverseMark=%CE%94%2F%E2%80%93%2F%2FXXIR&asmSelect10=&asmSelect11=&BustDescription=&ReverseDescription=&Note=&Reference=&page=1&mod=result&from=advanced" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/1819?tempRIC=&asmSelect0=&Reign=Aurelianus&asmSelect1=&asmSelect2=&asmSelect3=&asmSelect4=&asmSelect5=&asmSelect6=&Titulature=IMP+AVRELIANVS+AVG&asmSelect7=&Legend=ORIENS+AVG&asmSelect8=&asmSelect9=&ReverseMark=%CE%94%2F%E2%80%93%2F%2FXXIR&asmSelect10=&asmSelect11=&BustDescription=&ReverseDescription=&Note=&Reference=&page=1&mod=result&from=advanced" rel="nofollow">LV 1204-358</a>Aurelian didn't make it to Persia.  The Praetorian Guard, misled, murdered him in September 275, in Caenophrurium, Thrace.[/QUOTE]

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