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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 2566716, member: 5682&quot;]Great coin. And great piece of history.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the part about Marius being a &quot;humble blacksmith&quot; is probably just myth.</p><p><br /></p><p>This story came from Eutropius writing about a relatively obscure usurper emperor a century later. It would be like one us trying to write about Charles Curtis (Herbert Hoover&#039;s vice-president) before Wikipedia. It is unlikely that a mere blacksmith would rise up to grasp the purple.</p><p><br /></p><p>Great coins, everyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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