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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8269929, member: 91461&quot;]This just in from the latest Leu auction: I just recieved 3 of the baddest emperors in Roman history in one sweet package!</p><p><img src="https://media2.giphy.com/media/7ZgBm32jWGn72/200.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>(My money&#039;s on the cat)</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t mean to get 3 villains so close to each other in time with none the others predecessor but that&#039;s the way the empire crumbles (Zeus I love my own sense of humor<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>First, the guy who is the reason we call the toilet a commode<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> A coin I have in bronze but needed in silver (for obvious reasons). Despite the wear the old cabinet toning really makes this ever popular type jump out even more.</p><p>Famous for being bat poop crazy and pretending to be (and possibly actually thinking that he was) Herakles, among other things.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459513[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Never noticed that, as well as sporting Herk&#039;s club, he&#039;s rolling the Hesperian apples around in his hand like Chinese medicine balls)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my hands down favorite Com coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459504[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>Commodus</u></b></p><p>177-192. Denarius (Silver, 17 mm, 2.12 g, 6 h), Rome, 191-192. L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL Head of Commodus to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. HERCVLI ROMANO AVG Club in center flanked by bow and quiver. BMC 343. Cohen 195. RIC 253. Slightly rough and with some scratches, otherwise, good fine.</p><p>Purchased from Leu Feb 2022</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a guy I had a coin of, but sold due to wear. Not that this is that much of an upgrade, but DJ isn&#039;t the kind of guy I&#039;d pay the extra buck to get a real cherry example of... his predecessor Pertinax on the other hand<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The man who bought the empire and was killed by the same people he paid for the opportunity</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459514[/ATTACH]</p><p>(The pizza guy is the Praetorian Guard and Rome the pizza)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;in less than three months (though, supposedly his daughter was the most beautiful woman in Rome). Doesn&#039;t endear me to him. So, this coin was perfect. And does anyone else see the little alien Concordia is dangling in her left hand?:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459503[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>Didius Julianus</u></b></p><p>193 BCE. Denarius (Silver, 17 mm, 1.92 g, 6 h), Rome. IMP CAES M DID IVLIAN AVG Laureate head of Didius Julianus to right. Rev. CONCORD MILIT Concordia standing front, head to left, holding aquila in her right hand and vexillum in her left. BMC 2. Cohen 2 corr. (omits DID on the obverse in error). RIC 1. Harshly cleaned and very rough, otherwise, fair. Purchased from Leu Feb 2022</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, and probably my favorite of the group, I NEEDED a grumpy faced Caracalla <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and all of mine are of him as a kid or provincial.</p><p>So imagine my delight when this pistoff looking coin of him showed up... with a masterfully<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie16" alt=":artist:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> crafted nude Jupiter on the reverse. In hand this thing absolutely POPS!</p><p>The guy created great baths, FINALLY grants citizenship to all Romans what&#039;s not to like?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459516[/ATTACH]</p><p>(I NEED to go here!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and he murdered his own brother, may have tried to kill his own father (though, played it off as a joke), killed large numbers of people in Alexandria for satirizing him and was just about as scary as any Roman before or since:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459505[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>Caracalla</u></b></p><p>198-217. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.00 g, 12 h), Rome, 217. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM Laureate head of Caracalla to right. Rev. P M TR P XX COS IIII P P Jupiter standing front, head to left, holding thunderbolt in his right hand and long scepter in his left. BMC 180. Cohen 373. RIC 285a. Light deposits and with a minor edge crack, otherwise, good extremely fine. Purchased from Leu Feb 2022</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]IyhJ69mD7xI[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>So,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459506[/ATTACH]</p><p>And post up your bad guys, coins from Leu or anything BAD<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":jimlad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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