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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7959691, member: 115909&quot;]I don’t have any damnatio memoriae coins or I would share <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />…</p><p><br /></p><p>But I think this damnatio memoriae of Commodus is interesting because I never knew he was subjected to it in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379934[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Damnatio memoriae of &#039;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Commodus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Commodus" rel="nofollow">Commodus</a>&#039; on an inscription in the Museum of Roman History <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Osterburken" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Osterburken" rel="nofollow">Osterburken</a>. The abbreviation &quot;CO&quot; was later restored with paint.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>I think it’s interesting how much value Romans put into image and memory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Epictetus even joked about it. He once took out a sestertius and said:</p><p>&quot;Whose imprint does this sestertius bear? Trajan&#039;s? Give it to me. Nero&#039;s? Throw it out, it will not pass, it is rotten.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>He was making fun of the fact that some coins were seen to be inferior just due to having an unpopular Emperor on it even though the denarii for example had actual silver intrinsic value that was equal or more than accepted coins. Like a denarius of Nero had more silver (usually) than one of Trajan but Nero’s denarii were seen as unacceptable while Trajan’s were happily accepted by all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine that’s why Caligula’s denarii are so rare and expensive. Most of them were melted down because the Roman people hated everything about him so instead of keeping them in circulation they took them in to be re-minted into shiny new Claudius denarii.</p><p><br /></p><p>However the denarii of very popular Emperors like Augustus, Marcus Aurelius, Trajan, Hadrian etc., are relatively common because the Roman people approved of those Emperors and kept their coins in circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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