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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael W. Bradley, post: 7914271, member: 114144&quot;]Great thread and great coins. One of the biographers stated along the lines of that &#039;he skulked in his tent&#039; while the great battles raged. His worst crime perhaps was his assent to Cicero&#039;s proscription. Later, (I forget the reference) he caught his two nephews reading a scroll and when he came up on them they tried to hide it, and then he asked them what it was: it was Cicero! He then told them: &quot;Yes, he was a Great Roman&quot;. Another of his famous quotes from this same source: &quot;I would rather be one of Herod&#039;s pigs than one of his sons.&quot; Yet his long life set the foundation for the empire after many, many long years of civil strife. I have a specimen of the provincial Reverse of &#039;two oxen plowing&#039;, slightly off center. (I hope it is genuine). The obverse portrait of Augustus however is pretty badly deteriorated but is a favorite.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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