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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clavdivs, post: 3563477, member: 93702&quot;]Very nice pick up.. that is quite a flattering portrait of Nerva actually.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Adoptive/Good Emperors set in bronze (added Aelius Caesar and Commodus to round it out a bit..).. all are sestertii - except Nerva (dupondius).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]947538[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Nerva–Antonine dynasty (AD 96–192)</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Chronology</b></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerva" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerva" rel="nofollow">Nerva</a></p><p>96 – 98</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan" rel="nofollow">Trajan</a></p><p>98 – 117</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" rel="nofollow">Hadrian</a></p><p>117 – 138</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" rel="nofollow">Antoninus Pius</a></p><p>138 – 161</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" rel="nofollow">Lucius Verus</a></p><p>161 – 169</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" rel="nofollow">Marcus Aurelius</a></p><p>161 – 180</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus" rel="nofollow">Commodus</a></p><p>177 – 192</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Lucius Aelius Caesar</b> (January 13, 101 – January 1, 138) was the father of Emperor <span style="color: #000000"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" rel="nofollow">Lucius Verus</a>. In 136, he was adopted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" rel="nofollow">Hadrian</a> and named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_(title)" rel="nofollow">heir to the throne</a>. He died before Hadrian and thus never became emperor. After Lucius&#039; death, he was replaced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" rel="nofollow">Antoninus Pius</a>, who succeeded Hadrian the same year</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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