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Coin engraved by Euainetos, Sicily, Syracuse. ca. 408-390 BCE. Decadrachm,
(obverse) Head of Persephone left, wearing earring and necklace; hair turned up and behind, arranged in wavy curls, and bound with a wreath of corn-leaves; beneath,…
Claudius II Gothicus was part of a long line of emperors to take control through military power. In the fifty years after the death of the last member of the Severan dynasty in 235 CE until Diocletian came into power in 284 CE, there was no order to…