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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7568850, member: 115909&quot;]Hey guys, I just wanted to share my first ever purchase of a Roman denarius.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to start by getting the &quot;Five Good Emperors&quot; mentioned by Edward Gibbon in his magnum opus &quot;The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those 5 Emperors are: Trajan, Hadrian, Nerva, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;“Edward Gibbon named Hadrian among the Empire&#039;s &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Five_Good_Emperors" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Five_Good_Emperors" rel="nofollow">Five Good Emperors</a>&quot;, a &quot;benevolent dictator&quot;; Hadrian&#039;s own Senate found him remote and authoritarian. He has been described as enigmatic and contradictory, with a capacity for both great personal generosity and extreme cruelty and driven by insatiable curiosity, self-conceit, and ambition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well this one is Hadrian so it definitely fits the criteria for what I am looking for and I really like the toning colors on it. They give it a beautiful aged look in my opinion.“</p><p><br /></p><p>The scratches on the obverse seem to be on the NGC holder rather than the coin itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next up I think I&#039;m going to get a denarius of Trajan or Nerva.</p><p><br /></p><p>A denarius of Marcus Aurelius is last for sure since his are always the most expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1305109[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1305110[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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