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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 5295433, member: 115909&quot;]Awesome coins Donna!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am studying classical history in university and my focus is on Greece &amp; Rome (I’m writing a research paper on the Battle of Teutoburg Forest) and it’s so amazing to see relics from such an ancient era still among us today. Who knows who those coins could’ve belonged too? A merchant? A member of the Praetorian Guard? The Emperor himself perhaps?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian was a good emperor. According to scholar Edward Gibbon, who wrote the hugely influential book “The History of the Rise &amp; Decline of the Roman Empire” he was one of the five “Good Emperors” along with Nerva, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius. None of which became Emperor by birthright (they were not “born in the purple”) which led Gibbons to hypothesize that perhaps inherited power leads to corruption.</p><p><br /></p><p>He is also famous for building the famous “Hadrian’s Wall” some of which still stands today.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have a lot of history in those coins Donna, please take good care of them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222648[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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