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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5181408, member: 19463"]I share the coin problem but have one child and one grandchild so that has not been a problem....yet. The last time I saw my grandmother we had a nice talk about the old days and why I had not seen her for so long. She thought I was her son (my uncle) killed in WWII before I was born. I saw no reason to dispute it and ruin her day. I will yield here hoping one of our regulars will chime in with his comment on aging. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Which Constans II? We have the son of Constantine III and the Byzantine one a couple hundred years later. That brings up why Julian II got that number and whether #1 was Didius Julianus or Julian of Pannonia. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am quite good with that concept but still wonder how we decide how long you have to survive to be successful. In most cases 'success' was more related to how close to Rome you were but that does not explain the Gordians (whose coins I have not collected). Sometimes I feel like I need to know more about who was in charge but was not emperor. Who ordered the striking of coins for the Gordians? What went on in Rome between the death of Didius and the arrival of Severus suggests to me that Didius was more deserving of the title usurper than was Pescennius (losing due to location rather than ability). We will never know how history would have worked out had Severus been stationed far away and Pescennius near Rome. We might have been spared Caracalla and Elagabalus but we would miss their great stories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5181408, member: 19463"]I share the coin problem but have one child and one grandchild so that has not been a problem....yet. The last time I saw my grandmother we had a nice talk about the old days and why I had not seen her for so long. She thought I was her son (my uncle) killed in WWII before I was born. I saw no reason to dispute it and ruin her day. I will yield here hoping one of our regulars will chime in with his comment on aging. Which Constans II? We have the son of Constantine III and the Byzantine one a couple hundred years later. That brings up why Julian II got that number and whether #1 was Didius Julianus or Julian of Pannonia. I am quite good with that concept but still wonder how we decide how long you have to survive to be successful. In most cases 'success' was more related to how close to Rome you were but that does not explain the Gordians (whose coins I have not collected). Sometimes I feel like I need to know more about who was in charge but was not emperor. Who ordered the striking of coins for the Gordians? What went on in Rome between the death of Didius and the arrival of Severus suggests to me that Didius was more deserving of the title usurper than was Pescennius (losing due to location rather than ability). We will never know how history would have worked out had Severus been stationed far away and Pescennius near Rome. We might have been spared Caracalla and Elagabalus but we would miss their great stories.[/QUOTE]
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