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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 3202378, member: 41219&quot;]I posted a week or two ago about coins that got my son and me interested in collecting ancients. The coin he chose was a Caracalla denarius. He chose it because the image on the coin is about the same age as my son is currently. It really interested him to read about Caracalla and how he was a ruler of the empire when he was the same age as my son. </p><p>A few days ago a letter arrived in the mail with this denarius of Geta to add to his collection. &quot;If he likes Caracalla then he needs Geta&quot; was the letter attached to it. He, understandably, was over-the-top excited. His description of the coin is &quot;Marvelous&quot;.&nbsp; He was also very excited to sit down with me and read the history of Geta. </p><p><br /></p><p>After reading a bit about him, we decided that Geta was a much better person than Caracalla and that it was a shame that he died instead of his brother. He told me that if he becomes the president he promises not to kill his little sister. I have to say, I&#039;m quite happy with that response haha. He also now likes Geta more because their birthdays are very close, 7 March for Geta and 5 March for my son, albeit 1,822 years apart lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>He has really been interested in these coins depicting kids his age on them so I think that we will perhaps focus his collection that way, at least for now. We can get new coins as he gets older that depict people that were approximately his age when they were minted. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for looking. And thanks again to the person who sent my son this coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Geta as Caesar</p><p>P SEPTIMIVS GETA CAES, draped bust right </p><p>FELICITAS TEMPOR, Felicitas standing left left, holding cauduceus &amp; cornucopiae</p><p>[ATTACH=full]829091[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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