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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 6599063, member: 44316&quot;]I don&#039;t have a coin from my birth year, but that year was the 2000th anniversary of this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1266077[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A Roman Republican silver denarius, struck 56 BC by Faustus Cornelius Sulla, the son of the famous Sulla. 19 mm. 3.90 grams. Test cut at 6:30/12:00.</p><p>Bust of Diana right (Sulla&#039;s patron deity) FAVSTVS in field.</p><p>Sulla receiving the surrender of Jugurtha by Bocchus (a famous event event in history which elevated Sulla to be a rival of Marius for being the most important man in Rome), which happened 50 years before this coin was struck. Republican coins of moneyers often celebrated deeds of their ancestors. This design was engraved on the personal seal of Sulla.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not my year, but 2000 years earlier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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