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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2179259, member: 19463&quot;]I ha a hard time selecting the best &#039;father&#039; coin to show.&nbsp; JA&#039;s suggestion of both on a coin leaves me only with a scrappy, Rome version of the Vespasian and boys type not worth showing on the same page as v70&#039;s great coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]421727[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have the Septimius and sons and find it interesting that Marcus Aurelius never issued a two header with Commodus especially after having been so honored by his adoptive father Antoninus Pius.&nbsp; Adoptions count so you get to see my common denarius.&nbsp; There is currently a bunch of these available on VCoins for what I would call reasonable prices considering the coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]421728[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While talking adoptive for political reasons (there are more noble reasons for adoption but they did not come up so often in Rome), lets see my fourrees showing Augustus, son of Caesar and father of Tiberius:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]421730[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421729[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I really wish I had a twin headed follis of the two Licinii (too rich for my blood)</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=635868" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=635868" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=635868</a></p><p>but a coin I&#039;d really like is one that does not exist in my price bracket:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1237176" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1237176" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1237176</a></p><p>There is something special about issuing a coin with your son (Crispus) who you would kill shortly thereafter and the son who would succeed you for a while until his brothers offed him, of course.&nbsp; When it comes to Roman Father of the Empire, Constantine beats Septimius and Aurelius hands down.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are several Byzantines many of you have that qualify for this thread.&nbsp; I&#039;ll offer my Constantine VII and son Romanus II gold/silver fourree solidus (one of my favorite coins).&nbsp; I wish I had a Romanus I with his son because of the way his family life defined &#039;Byzantine&#039; but again my collection is lacking.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]421737[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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