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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3173408, member: 19463&quot;]From Wikipedia:</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">In the sphere of civil affairs, Carus is remembered principally for the final suppression of the authority of the senate, which had been partially restored under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_(emperor)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_(emperor)" rel="nofollow">Tacitus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probus_(emperor)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probus_(emperor)" rel="nofollow">Probus</a>. He declined to accept their ratification of his election, informing them of the fact by a haughty and distant dispatch.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Perhaps there were women in that day that considered a man strong enough to tell the Senate where to go more appealing than a fellow with a fancy wig (Otho) or Rome&#039;s finest collection of wardrobe (look at all the different clothes on coins of Probus). </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH=full]816135[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]816136[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><br /></p><p>Virtus and Victoria seem fine but perhaps he should have issued more coins honoring the big guy who threw lightning bolts???&nbsp; I don&#039;t have one of his but they exist like these for his sons.</p><p>Carinus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]816139[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Numerian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]816137[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Want list item?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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