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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3633932, member: 99456&quot;]I am also not ready to let this go, so my apologies as well to [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] if this qualified as &quot;hijacking&quot; - perhaps defensible as enthusiasm for the topic of the OP.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one more from the &quot;<a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quinarius/#refs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quinarius/#refs" rel="nofollow"><b>Second Period</b></a>&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]974851[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>C. Egnatuleius C. f. </b>AR Quinarius, Rome, 97 BC.</p><p><b>Obv:</b> C EGNATVLEI C F Laureate head of Apollo; Q below</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Victory standing left, inscribing shield attached to trophy; at base, carnyx to left; Q in field, ,ROMA in exergue</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 333/1; King 36; Sydenham 588; Egnatuleia 1</p><p><b>Size:</b> 1.56g, 16mm</p><p>Crawford argues that the quinarii issued in 99-97 are to be linked with Marius&#039; colonizing activity and with Saturninus&#039; leges agraria (land grants in cis-alpine Gaul).&nbsp; The enormous issues of 99-97 suggest that the lex agraria of 100 was put into effect and that Rome struck money especially for the purpose of financing viritane settlement (grants of Roman citizenship and land) to Marius&#039; veterans...for <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#29" rel="nofollow">more</a> on the Apuleia Agraria, proposed by L. Apuleius Saturninus in BC 101:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">Then Apuleius brought forward a law to divide the land which the Cimbri (a Celtic tribe lately driven out by Marius) had seized in the country now called Gaul by the Romans, and which was considered as now no longer Gallic but Roman territory. It was provided also in this law that, if the people should enact it, the senators should take an oath within five days to obey it, and that any one who should refuse to do so should be expelled from the Senate and should pay a fine of twenty talents for the benefit of the people. Thus they intended to punish those who should take it with bad grace, and especially Metellus, who was too high-spirited to submit to the oath. Such was the proposed law. Apuleius appointed the day for holding the comitia and sent messengers to inform those in country districts, in whom he had the utmost confidence, because they had served in the army under Marius. As the law gave the larger share to the Italian allies the city people were not pleased with it.</font></i></p><p><font size="3"><i>-</i><b> Appian<i> The Civil Wars</i></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>More also in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-victoriatus-revived-sort-of.289158/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-victoriatus-revived-sort-of.289158/">this thread</a> of [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER].[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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