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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2406112, member: 44316&quot;]Like so many others, I cannot choose just one. I think my first favorite was Trajan. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]496584[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]496585[/ATTACH] </p><p>He issued many coins with connections to history. I show Trajan&#039;s column, still extant in Rome, with its reference to the Dacian wars, and a camel with its reference to Arabia and the end of the Nabataeans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, I think a collection of coins of Augustus would be the most interesting, but early on I decided not to compete with 12-Caesars collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>I loved coins of Constantine. Many of his coins are inexpensive (a plus from my point of view). His rise to power was complicated and the only period when rulers got the title FIL AVG. That much of his reign I tried to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/FILAVGG/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/FILAVGG/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/FILAVGG/</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]496588[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]496589[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But his copper coinage is very extensive and otherwise I was happy to just have some representative pieces. I know others who are attempting completeness.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Maximinus Thrax, the Giant, was the subject of a recent thread.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ar-denarius-236ad-rome-mint.277746/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ar-denarius-236ad-rome-mint.277746/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ar-denarius-236ad-rome-mint.277746/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t participate in it because I had already posted my site:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/Maximinus/Maximinus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/Maximinus/Maximinus.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/Maximinus/Maximinus.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I like him because his rise to power is interesting, his denarii are generally of very high quality, and there are not too many types.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, not far behind are Probus, with many interesting bust types, Caracalla, with Parthian victory types and, as others have noted, interesting portrait development, and Gallienus with the great &quot;zoo&quot; series and legionary types, and Septimius Severus and ... .</p><p>Have I mentioned all the emperors yet?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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