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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 1462441, member: 19122&quot;]I am surprised that the coin was struck after the crossing of the Rubicon, to portray your rivals in a civil war as snakes does not seem like Caesar. He pardoned many who had been of Pompeys party, and wished to restore those who he had been at odds with to full citizenship. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose that it was the work of some of his partisans and was not something directed by Caesar himself. In his memoirs of the civil wars, he did not fight with the same sort of ruthlessness that characterized his Gallic campaigns. </p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting bit of history, and something I will bring up with a coin collecting friend who is into ancients.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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