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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3097248, member: 87200&quot;]Can you believe I still don&#039;t have a Severus in my collection? That&#039;s one hole I&#039;ve got to fill! Nice coins all. One would think that Rome was omnipotent after the successful war that took Ctesiphon, with its largest territorial extent. Within 40 years, Rome was sucking wind and the great wave of debasement of the coinage had started. The city magistrates were unable to pay their usual (high) taxes and the inexorable decline had started, temporarily postponed by Aurelian, Diocletian, and Constantine (among others) but eventually Rome and the West fell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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