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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2149841, member: 56859&quot;]The idea of Augustus being a coin collector appears to come from this paragraph in</p><p><i>The Lives of the Twelve Caesars</i> by Roman historian Suetonius Tranquillus (c. CE 69 - after CE 122), book II, <i>Divvs Avgvstvs</i>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]412439[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Full translation of <i>The Lives of the Twelve Caesars</i> can be read here, if anyone is interested:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Augustus*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Augustus*.html" rel="nofollow">http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Augustus*.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and here (better index; link is to the chapter cited above):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0132%3Alife%3Daug.%3Achapter%3D73" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0132%3Alife%3Daug.%3Achapter%3D73" rel="nofollow">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0132:life=aug.:chapter=73</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen mention of other emperors as coin collectors but have not seen nor read the source of some of that information.&nbsp; <a href="http://24carat.co.uk/frame.php?url=famouscoincollectors.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://24carat.co.uk/frame.php?url=famouscoincollectors.html" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s an example</a> of such a third-hand (or fourth+ hand) mention:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Interest in old coins was continued by some of Augustus&#039; successors, Titus, Domitian and especially Trajan; in fact, the latter reissued some silver and a few gold coins of not only his predecessors, but also of the Roman republic. Such restitution coins, marked clearly as such by the addition of the inscription REST[ITUIT], duplicated exactly the design and legend of the original. That is a clear evidence that some sort of collection must have existed.</p><p>Pliny was surprised to learn that &#039;spurious methods are objects of study, and a sample of a forged denarius is carefully examined and the adulterated coin is bought for more than genuine ones.&#039;&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The Pliny quote is interesting; forgeries were purchased for more than face value.&nbsp; So... don&#039;t feel bad about buying those fourees.&nbsp; You are in august company <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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