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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3606801, member: 99456&quot;]A coin worth owning, even if Caius Marius C. f. Capito was not related to Caius Marius of Arpinum and Sulla had control of Rome by the time it was minted.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]965603[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here&#039;s a story you may enjoy <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0232%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D11%3Asection%3D101" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0232%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D11%3Asection%3D101" rel="nofollow">from Appian</a>:</p><p><font size="3"><i>Then Sulla assembled the people and said to them, &quot;Know, citizens, and learn from me, that I caused the death of Lucretius because he disobeyed me.&quot; And then he told the following story: &quot;A husbandman was bitten by fleas while ploughing. He stopped his ploughing twice in order to clear them out of his shirt. When they bit him again he burned his shirt, so that he might not be so often interrupted in his work. And I tell you, who have felt my hand twice, to take warning lest the third time fire be brought in requisition.&quot;</i></font></p><p>- Appian Bellum Civile 1.11.101</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael Harlan in <a href="https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/roman-republican-moneyers-and-their-coins-81-bce-64-bce/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/roman-republican-moneyers-and-their-coins-81-bce-64-bce/" rel="nofollow">his book on Moneyers 81-64 BCE</a> wonders if, perhaps, the story might have inspired the coin or the coin inspired the story...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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