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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4966673, member: 110350&quot;]That was my reaction as well when I first saw the coin. I wonder how much it resembles the actual legionary emblem.&nbsp; Although I suppose that when you look at the bucranium before the lion&#039;s paws on the other coin, the lion apparently won! (Which I don&#039;t think would happen in real life -- I seem to recall reading that in the animal fights held south of the border in Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th century, largely for a U.S. audience, bulls usually prevailed against other individual animals, including lions, tigers, and perhaps even bears.&nbsp; Not that it&#039;s really fair to make a lion fight or hunt as an individual rather than as a pride. And not that I approve of such fights; it makes me ill to think of actually watching one. At least&nbsp; gladiatorial bouts between humans didn&#039;t result in deaths nearly as often as people think. Whereas animals always died in the end.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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