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<p>[QUOTE="Limes, post: 7862070, member: 101013"]I find your coin very interesting Donna, I have yet to acquire a type of my own. Congratulations! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm wondering about this explanation. Celebrating a victory over fellow Romans was, to say the least, not appreciated. Octavian erected an arch in the Forum dedicated to Actium, but he changed the <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4382899" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4382899" rel="nofollow">arch </a>to celebrate the 'victory' over the Parthens and the return of the standards. So why celebrate the victory over a fellow Roman, 200 years later? </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, here's my legionary denarius. Interestingly, simultaneous to the issuing of the legionary denarii, Octavian issued the 'divi f' series. Both were means of propaganda. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1354808[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Limes, post: 7862070, member: 101013"]I find your coin very interesting Donna, I have yet to acquire a type of my own. Congratulations! I'm wondering about this explanation. Celebrating a victory over fellow Romans was, to say the least, not appreciated. Octavian erected an arch in the Forum dedicated to Actium, but he changed the [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4382899']arch [/URL]to celebrate the 'victory' over the Parthens and the return of the standards. So why celebrate the victory over a fellow Roman, 200 years later? In any case, here's my legionary denarius. Interestingly, simultaneous to the issuing of the legionary denarii, Octavian issued the 'divi f' series. Both were means of propaganda. [ATTACH=full]1354808[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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