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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4535251, member: 51347"]Wow, that makes sense to me. These were war issues in the extremity. The Romans were scared. They weren’t fighting Barbaric enemies, nor even the Greeks. No, the Romans were fighting their own Allies. Enemies that set side-by-side in battle formation, and covered each other’s flanks. The Allies new every tactic, strategy, training methods, armament, everything about the Roman Legions, because they were the Allied Legion. Allied legions were assigned to Roman Legions, sometime TWO Allied Legions were assigned to a Roman Legion. So monster mintage were pounded out to hastily formed troops that were a bit afeared of the former comrades in arms.</p><p><br /></p><p>90 BCE was the Year of “Oh, Crap! This is really happening!...” and, the Confederation was beatin’ on the Romans!</p><p><br /></p><p>Hasty mintage makes for cool but weird designs...cool!</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the Roman die cutter was getting purdy jittery, cuz the die cutter beside him was a Frentani or a Samnite, getting ready to sign up with the Marsic Confederation Legions.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-5-22_19-3-39-png.1119968/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>RR Vibius Pansa <b>90 BCE AR Denarius </b>Apollo V control - Minerva Quadriga Sear 242 Cr 342-5 Social-Marsic War[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4535251, member: 51347"]Wow, that makes sense to me. These were war issues in the extremity. The Romans were scared. They weren’t fighting Barbaric enemies, nor even the Greeks. No, the Romans were fighting their own Allies. Enemies that set side-by-side in battle formation, and covered each other’s flanks. The Allies new every tactic, strategy, training methods, armament, everything about the Roman Legions, because they were the Allied Legion. Allied legions were assigned to Roman Legions, sometime TWO Allied Legions were assigned to a Roman Legion. So monster mintage were pounded out to hastily formed troops that were a bit afeared of the former comrades in arms. 90 BCE was the Year of “Oh, Crap! This is really happening!...” and, the Confederation was beatin’ on the Romans! Hasty mintage makes for cool but weird designs...cool! Maybe the Roman die cutter was getting purdy jittery, cuz the die cutter beside him was a Frentani or a Samnite, getting ready to sign up with the Marsic Confederation Legions. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-5-22_19-3-39-png.1119968/[/IMG] RR Vibius Pansa [B]90 BCE AR Denarius [/B]Apollo V control - Minerva Quadriga Sear 242 Cr 342-5 Social-Marsic War[/QUOTE]
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