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The Battle of Abritus: Historic Gothic Victory Over Rome

The Battle of Abritus was not a decisive turning point in Rome's history, but it was a telling blow against the former might of the empire. In the past, except for a few extraordinary cases, the Roman army led by the emperor was usually victorious and was recognized as a formidable fighting force. At the Battle of Abritus, however, the army, under the experienced leadership of Decius, was destroyed, and the emperor and his successor were killed in an engagement which the Romans had every reason to believe should have gone the other way.

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I mean he is just adorable.

A potentially unique coin, a new Decius type…

Roman Province - Pisidia

AE24 - 7.94g

Trajan Decius 249-251 AD

Antioch Mint

Obverse IMP CAES C MESS Q DECIO TRA

Bust of Decius right, radiate, draped, cuirassed, from behind

Reverse ANTIOCH CE COLO S R

Vexillum with eagle, flanked by standards with eagles

And tell sad stories of the death of kings;

How some have been deposed; some slain in war,

Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;

Some poison’d by their wives: some sleeping kill’d;"

"All murder’d: for within the hollow crown

That rounds the mortal temples of a king

Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,

Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp."

Isaac II and Alexios III Angelos - Nemanjici: Radjanje kraljevine (2018)

Trajan Decius - Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire (2008)

But I git it done in 2 days and got a 100%

commission for Decius/Jetsers

He's a part of the dev team from my most favourite game in the world Wizard101 I'm grateful and this motivated me!