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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2677341, member: 19463&quot;]Sulla, a cheater?&nbsp; Possibly.&nbsp; This coin is one of the designs attributed to the period after Sulla defeated the Marian party and was handing out food or cash to Romans impacted during the wars.&nbsp; These coins don&#039;t bear Sulla&#039;s name and many of the ones seen strike me as looking like the metal might be lower quality than the average for the day.&nbsp; I wonder if Crawford had something to do with the 81BC&nbsp; suggestion.&nbsp; Someone here who specializes in RR should be able to straighten out this one but, in general, we need to remember that many dates of RR coins have been &#039;discussed&#039; or pushed one way or the other based on hoard evidence.&nbsp; A new find of thousands of coins can add evidence to the order of issues based on what is present and what is missing.&nbsp; Much of what we &#039;know&#039; is based on studies and best guesses.&nbsp; When you consider some of the things I was taught in school science classes, numismatics is not alone in this regard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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