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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24769001, member: 26430&quot;]I actually have some embarrassing Nerva&#039;s, but I give myself a pass for Nerva:</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect Roman &quot;captives coinage&quot; and, I believe, he is one the very few rulers from Julius Caesar through Leo &amp; Zeno that did not produce any -- either Imperial or Provincial -- including &quot;personifications mourning.&quot; (If anyone knows any that are close, please let me know!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninus and Hadrian are tough, too, but I found a way.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">---</p><p><b>NERVA</b>: N/A</p><p><br /></p><p><b>TRAJAN</b>: His Dacian campaign was his great achievement. He bragged with a huge, varied series of captives coins. Mine are silver, but they come in gold and bronze and many more variations:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-dacian-captive-seated-trophy-ar-denarius-ex-jesus-vico-photo-e-12-121-jpg.1499621/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-dacia-denarius-png.1499620/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-dacian-captive-ar-denarius-ex-jesus-vico-photo-e-12-113-jpg.1499622/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even Trajan&#039;s famous architectural types are often about the Dacian conquest. His Column celebrating it, and the Bridge over the River Danube which won him the campaign (kinda). [ATTACH]1584480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1584481[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>HADRIAN</b>: Had very few captives coins. Aside from the Britannia personifications, only a few specimens are known. I had to go to Alexandria to find one (this one uses an &quot;Armenian captives&quot; reverse type introduced by Trajan). Ex Dattari and ETB Collections:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1584482[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b>: Another hard one. Only the &quot;Britannia mourning&quot; types for Imperial coins (and some Provincials). New, from the &quot;Mentor Collection&quot; (George Muller Estate):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1584483[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>MARCUS AURELIUS</b>: Made a big return to captives coinage. Sadly, I&#039;ve only just begun with him and don&#039;t have much that&#039;s pretty. Here&#039;s an Armenia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1584486[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>COMMODUS (substitute for Nerva)</b>: Produced lots of braggadocius captives coinage, but it was all his father&#039;s military accomplishments (same for Lucius Verus&#039;), including the Sarmatian and Germanic captives of the Marcomannic Wars pictured here:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1584488[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1584487[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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