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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4007591, member: 89514&quot;]An important discovery of my Oxford master&#039;s thesis on the coinage of 193-198: Septimius defeated Albinus near Lugdunum not on 19 Feb. 197 (IMP VIIII), the accepted date since at least 1700, but rather one year earlier, on 19 Feb. 196 (IMP VIII). </p><p><br /></p><p>So your sestertius commemorates Septimius&#039; well-attested return to Rome c. summer 196 after his defeat of Albinus several months earlier. He had not returned to Rome earlier in the course of his march from the East, as the old chronology was forced to postulate because of its misdating of the battle of Lugdunum</p><p><br /></p><p>For a detailed summary of my arguments, search Forum&#039;s Discussion for Battle of Lugdunum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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