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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4438973, member: 85693&quot;]Nice coin, Agricantus - I had an as with the horseman spearing the Dacian, but it was so worn, so pitted, that it was really, really hard to make out.&nbsp; Even by my low standards it was unacceptable, so I sold it off in a lot. </p><p><br /></p><p>So my only Trajan Dacian War issue is the one I posted.&nbsp; Showing Pax stomping on a Dacian gives some idea, perhaps, of Rome&#039;s definition of &quot;peace.&quot;&nbsp; Tacitus, from Wikiquote:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.</i></p><ul> <li><b>To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace.</b></li> </ul><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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