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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cyrrhus, post: 2314607, member: 73882&quot;]<b>Dear Friends,</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Yes I bought a coin in 2016, I am off the wagon...</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>During Sulla&#039;s Dictatorship following his victory over the forces of Marius, Quintus Sertorius, became the only surviving commander of note in opposition to the Sullan regime. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>In 83 BC Just before Sulla returned from the war against Mithridates of Pontus, Sertorius was sent to Spain by the Marian consuls to prevent Sulla gaining control there. Sertorius travelled there with a single legion, taking his post as Governor of the province Hispania Ulterior. He worked to eliminate all Sullan support in Spain, and instituted policies that endeared him to the natives.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>In 81 BC, Sulla sent Gaius Annius Luscus as governor to Spain with a large army who drove Sertorius out of Spain.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Sertorius, a fugitive now, took over the Balearic Islands, but Luscus pursued him and drove him off after a small naval battle. Sertorius went to Mauretania where he intervened in a dynastic struggle, defeating also Paccianus&#039; forces that Sulla had sent to assist the opponent in this conflict. After having successfully ended this struggle in Northern Africa, Sertorius was approached by Lusitanian emissaries. Having enough of Sulla&#039;s hard rule, the Lusitanians offered to submit themselves to Sertorius as their leader with absolute authority.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Sertorius set out to Spain, defeated C. Aurelius Cotta in a naval battle and landed in Southern Spain, not far from Gibraltar in 80 BC. His army, consisting of 2,600 Romans and 700 Moorish cavalry, was quickly joined by 4,000 Lusitanian infantry and another 700 cavalry.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Spain then became a battleground for nearly a decade where Sertorius outfought, outmanoeuvred, and outwitted a succession of Roman generals before being betrayed by his own subordinates.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>So this coin should represent Sertorius issued in Bolskan Spain or it is issued during his reign in certain area&#039;s.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]466872[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]466874[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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