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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TJC, post: 2685151, member: 45502&quot;]Great Sulla Alegandron!!!&nbsp; Congrats!!!</p><p>And cheers for all the other awesome Sullas!!&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>I too am Sulla fan!&nbsp; The guy should be as famous as JC, yet I had never heard of him until I found a coin of him online and started doing research.&nbsp; I then read G. P. Bakers, Sulla the Fortunate; good book, btw.&nbsp; What an awesome historical figure!&nbsp; Sulla sums it well with his own epitaph: &quot;No greater friend.&nbsp; No worse enemy.&quot;</p><p>Yeah, Sulla rocks!!!&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are more:</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my first catch.&nbsp; Fairly worn, but still a nice one in my book<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]601032[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]601033[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is my upgrade<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I super love this coin, the iridescent tone is better in hand, but I am still on the lookout for one with a clear &#039;SULLA&#039; legend. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]601034[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]601035[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And last but not least, yet surely the most worn, is type that I didn&#039;t think I would be able to afford for a long time until this piece came up for sale.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite lowball!!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> How many millennia did this silver coin exchange as money??</p><p><br /></p><p>Faustus Cornelius Sulla. AR Denarius Rome, 56 BC.</p><p>O: FAVSTVS , diademed and draped bust of Diana right, crescent above, lituus behind.</p><p>Rx: FELIX , Sulla seated left on raised platform between King Bocchus of Mauretania on left, presenting him with wreath, and King Jugurta of Numidia on right, hands bound behind him, both kneeling.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]601039[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]601040[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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