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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4982203, member: 19463&quot;]I always felt that too many people of &#039;importance&#039; failed to pay heed to what I would call the lesson of Probus.&nbsp; Probus was a great leader and general who had great successes against the then current enemies of Rome.&nbsp; His mistake was telling his soldiers that he looked forward to a time when Rome, at peace, would have no further need for soldiers.&nbsp; He put soldiers to work draining swamps (real ones not the current euphemism for the federal bureaucracy).&nbsp; Lets see, you tell a bunch of guys with long knives that they can look forward to menial labor and unemployment.&nbsp; What could possibly go wrong?&nbsp; We value success and honesty.&nbsp; Perhaps Probus would have done well to have been more moderate in those areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never know whether to post photos of my better coins that have been shown before or lesser items just because they are different.&nbsp; In the last ten years I have posted most of my favorite coins on CT; some have been repeated far too often.&nbsp; Still we have new members and I have no idea what I have posted before the most recent days.&nbsp; Coin Community has a utility that allows you to see all images previously posted and link them into current discussions as desired.&nbsp; Several of us left or cut down on our activity there years ago when they kicked out two of our favorite people.&nbsp; I still (rarely) visit there and post if there is something in my specialty but still consider CT &#039;home&#039;.&nbsp; If we had the same utility here, I might have selected different Probus examples but, as it is, I hope there are some below that are not repeated so often and recently that no one wants to see them.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1196907[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196908[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196909[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196910[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196911[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196912[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196913[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196914[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196923[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1196924[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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