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Jun 2010
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098- Purchasing Power
MIKE DUNCAN
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After Commodus was assassinated, Pertinax reigned for 86 days. He was murdered by the Praetorian Guard in March 193 and the Imperial throne was auctioned off the highest bidder.
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