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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6894752, member: 19463"]I understand Vespasian being added but wonder why you delete Nerva.  I consider him one of the most important rulers for 'inventing' the concept of appointing a worthwhile successor.  He has some very interesting types but they are not the most common.  If you do not have them, it is because you are cheap and poor like me.<a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=334557" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=334557" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=334557</a>Best I have is a dupondius:[ATTACH=full]1272883[/ATTACH] Of course my favorite emperor is Septimius Severus who could be faulted for not killing his entire family.  Geta and Severus Alexander were not so bad but I'd sacrifice them to be spared Caracalla and Elagabalus.  Had he no family, I wonder who he would have named to succeed him.  My guess would be Maximinus but it could have been Pertinax the younger among a thousand others.  I prefer him not as a role model but for having several mints I enjoy and a number of types/styles.  [ATTACH=full]1272896[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1272898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1272899[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1272901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1272902[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1272904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1272905[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1272906[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1272912[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]