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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 2563168, member: 76111&quot;]I like your coin Orfew.&nbsp; I have one like it that I use as a set stopper which is where my Roman Republic collection officially ends.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As I sit back and look at the Roman Republic from times of relative political stability, times of upheavals such as the Punic &amp; Social Wars, and then the horrific Imperatorial Civil Wars, you can see the change in the coinage to match the times.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coins started with traditional values and rarely changed until politicians started to put their names on them and then their designs, slowly but surely departing from Roman traditions.&nbsp; Eventually, they started putting their faces on them like Kings and each coin became nothing more than a propaganda token for their personal campaigns for power.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, after decades of bloodshed, we get Augustus as undisputed Emperor on this issue showing nothing more than his portrait, his title, and some freaky beast that is his adopted avatar half fish and goat holding onto the world.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some people see him as one of the good Emperors but I see him as 2 Emperors away from Caligula and a bloodthirsty little twerp like Volodya.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]552862[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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