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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 6372866, member: 115909&quot;]Oh by the way: In the next year or so I plan on picking up 1 denarius from each of the “Five Good Emperors”.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius &amp; Antoninus Pius.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Edward Gibbon they were the best of Roman emperors in terms of treating the people well, running effective government, and winning wars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly as Gibbon points out: “None of these Emperors were born “in the purple.”</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;His hypothesis was that emperorship should not have been passed down through inheritance as once that happened the Emperors who inherited the title ended up becoming corrupt, lavacious, cruel, or just downright insane. Even if their fathers had been good Emperors.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It’s interesting to think that history proves through experience that titles should not be handed down but rather earned on an individual basis.</p><p><br /></p><p>We wouldn’t want a President to pass down the Presidency to his oldest son after all xD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our Founding Fathers knew that. When they took those long wagon rides across states to attend conventions &amp; delegations they were reading about Classical History and trying to learn from mistakes the Romans made when creating the USA.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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