If you were an emperor...

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by JayAg47, Jan 31, 2021.

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Would you want your coins to be?

  1. Numerous and cheap

    6 vote(s)
    26.1%
  2. Rare and expensive

    5 vote(s)
    21.7%
  3. Somewhere inbetween

    12 vote(s)
    52.2%
  1. JayAg47

    JayAg47 Well-Known Member

    I'd like my coins to be minted in heaps and affordable, but also like to have some types that are scarce/significant that it costs in the 100s even at a low grade!
     
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  3. svessien

    svessien Senior Member

    If they were rare and expensive, people would write exalted posts, celebrating that they finally had added the infamous Emperor Svessien to their collection; a long term goal. I think I’d like that.

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  4. Only a Poor Old Man

    Only a Poor Old Man Well-Known Member

    Rare and expensive. Anyone that would not keep them in uncirculated condition would get re-educated. :muted: As for the plebs, they can barter! :cigar: :pompous:
     
  5. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    I'd like them to be like those of Marcus Aurelius. Plentiful in aggregate, so everyone could have one in their collection, but with some rare and much-sought-after types to keep the specialists interested for their entire life in the hobby, such as the aureus of AD 173 depicting him on horseback in the pose on the famous equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline Hill.

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  6. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Not now.....but later:happy:
     
  7. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    I would like them to be along the lines of Philip I coinage/ lots of diverse reverses/ esp. the ones with wildlife themes. For portraits I love the Gallic Empire/ Postumus/ so nice. However the best would be to have the money of a modern day Czar/ Vladmir Putin and buy every Aurei/ Denari thats avaliable:D You would even have free security guards to keep the coll on display in your palace.
     
  8. svessien

    svessien Senior Member

    Snow mobile on the ADVENTVS AVG issue, I take it?
     
  9. Mammothtooth

    Mammothtooth Stand up Philosopher, Vodka Taster

    I would like my coins to have an internal time screen and a warm on switch for winter. Nothing worse for a body in a toga than a cold breeze. By the same token, no pun intended, there would be a cool switch on the coin for the summer heat in those hot seats in the Coliseum. The time would display so you would know when to go to the Pub for happy hour after wagering on your favorite gladiator. The reverse would advertise my Chariot Company, WREXUS CHARIOTS, the need for speed.
     
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  10. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    Sort of in between I guess for emperor Michael (that's my name). Plentiful enough that the populace would be well-fed and happy. I would strike some Annona types along with Liberalitas (yes, I would also distribute largesse to the public). With regard to the military I'd offer a fair days pay but no extravagant donatives such as Didius Julianus'. I would not follow Septimius Severus' advice of "enrich the soldiers, ignore all others." I also would build an Arch of Michael in the Forum just to serve my vanity. ;)
     
  11. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Nope/ that is for the trails. A Rottweiler would look very good as a reverse theme. As for clothes, Rome is so miserablely hot, never wear a shirt. Definately no "toga"I would have adopted "Persian" style pants from the enemy. persian-sassanid-emperor-khosrau-ii-with-his-christian-wife-shirin-khosrau-ii.jpg
     
  12. Robert Ransom

    Robert Ransom Well-Known Member

    Imperator Robertus Pretium has a nice ring and falls softly from the tongue. A abbundanza of coins with Constantine I bust on obv and a large fist holding arrows on the rev. My wife says I looked like him in my younger days. :rolleyes:
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  13. Mammothtooth

    Mammothtooth Stand up Philosopher, Vodka Taster

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  14. DiomedesofArgos

    DiomedesofArgos Well-Known Member

    Numerous and cheap for me. For so many coins of me to have survived, it likely means I ruled a long time and the Empire was fairly prosperous to require so much coinage.
     
  15. Robert Ransom

    Robert Ransom Well-Known Member

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  16. Robert Ransom

    Robert Ransom Well-Known Member

    The reason a plethora of coins exist is because you were one of the few good guys.
     
  17. svessien

    svessien Senior Member

    Alternatively, they would discuss the hyperinflation of King Diomedes....

    I think I would have tied up some money velocity in my multiple aureii pieces.
     
  18. DiomedesofArgos

    DiomedesofArgos Well-Known Member

    :p Certainly, it could also mean the Empire was always at war during my reign and everyone was burying coins and getting slaughtered before they could recover them... but I'm taking the optimistic view :D
     
  19. yakpoo

    yakpoo Member

    Lol...you gotta catch him first!

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  20. Robert Ransom

    Robert Ransom Well-Known Member

    For thee, you get three, ROFLMAO 1Emoji.gif ROFLMAO 1Emoji.gif ROFLMAO 1Emoji.gif
     
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  21. Terence Cheesman

    Terence Cheesman Well-Known Member

    I think I would prefer a mix. For all my coins to be rare would mean my reign was short and therefore a failure and if my coins are really cheap and plentiful might mean that I had wrecked the economy and my rule resulted in a great deal of misery to my subjects. The one denomination I would like to introduce would be a four denarius coin in silver. Hopefully it would be popular enough to be minted in large numbers. I would like to have a great deal a variety on the reverses of my coins celebrating victories, building projects, and other events. Since we have already seen an aureus on this thread.
    Marcus Aurelius Av Aureus 165-166 AD. Obv Head right laureate Rv Felicitas standing facing head left. RIC 153 Calico 1899 This coin illustrated. Faces of Power 276 This obverse illustrated. 7.30 grms 20mm Photo by W. Hansen maureliusaur4.jpg I do not look anything like Marcus Aurelius, for one thing in my youth I tried growing a beard and it looked like hell. I looked worse than Richard Harris did in the film Gladiator Dob5EUJWwAEhhSt.jpg I kept it for a few years and got rid of it along with the long hair.
     
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