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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4411496, member: 75937"]Yes, they are expensive, [USER=99177]@Marsman[/USER] , but that's a lovely as you've added to your collection. The middle bronzes of Nerva are much more affordable and yet they are still very artistically rendered. I have an as of this emperor, too: <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nerva-libertas-pvblica-as-jpg.1100525/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Nerva, AD 96-98.Roman Æ as, 11.96 g, 26.3 mm, 6 h.Rome, AD 97.Obv: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P, radiate head, right.Rev: LIBERTAS PVBLICA S C, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and scepter.Refs: RIC 86; BMCRE 131; Cohen 115; RCV --; ERIC II 152. We often think of Nerva as an "old emperor," but he was only 67 when he died -- younger than many of us here. I, too, had envisioned him as in his eighties or something, but then I did a bit of research when I posted <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/old-and-in-the-way.355688/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/old-and-in-the-way.355688/">a thread about old emperors</a>, and learned that he was about 65 when he assumed the purple.[/QUOTE]