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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2163801, member: 19463&quot;]Several reverse types, vastly more than average obverse variations, many mints and styles ---- If only he had&nbsp; the taste to be born in an era when someone was writing history, Probus would be a top favorite.&nbsp; What we know of his reign is interesting but he had no Suetonius.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite Probus story is that he was so successful in war that he assigned spare soldiers to labor tasks (draining marshes) that some of them found beneath their position.&nbsp; In general it is not a good idea to make the guys with knives mad at you.&nbsp; The problem is our information is not solid enough to know with certainty what happened.&nbsp; What we do know is Carus ended up emperor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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