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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3380949, member: 57463"]Bee-you-tiful coin, Collect89! My Cato quinarii:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]897801[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]897803[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is the better of my two. Cato the Younger struck these at Utica after fleeing Italy after Caesar crossed the Rubicon. The obverse says PRO PR (for himself). Committing suicide rather than submitting to Caesar's friendship, Cato the Younger became a symbol for later republicans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cato the Elder (Cato the Censor) was considered the embodiment of republican virtues. That included a public austerity which allowed him to inspect other people's homes for evidence of conspicuous consumption.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3380949, member: 57463"]Bee-you-tiful coin, Collect89! My Cato quinarii: [ATTACH=full]897801[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]897803[/ATTACH] This is the better of my two. Cato the Younger struck these at Utica after fleeing Italy after Caesar crossed the Rubicon. The obverse says PRO PR (for himself). Committing suicide rather than submitting to Caesar's friendship, Cato the Younger became a symbol for later republicans. Cato the Elder (Cato the Censor) was considered the embodiment of republican virtues. That included a public austerity which allowed him to inspect other people's homes for evidence of conspicuous consumption.[/QUOTE]
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