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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1516537, member: 19463&quot;][ATTACH]197376.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This moneyer had a way with interesting historical pieces.&nbsp; A Roman maiden<span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> Tarpeia offered</font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> the Sabine attackers entry to the city in exchange for &quot;what they bore on their left arms&quot;. She meant their gold bracelets but the Sabines, repulsed by her selling out her city, crushed her with their shields.&nbsp;&nbsp; She then was thrown from the Tarpeian Rock which then became the traditional place for execution of traitors to Rome.&nbsp; Both of these types show the part the Sabine enemies played in the early days of Rome as portrayed by a Roman of Sabine ancestry.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you have one; you need the other.&nbsp; </font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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