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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2655869, member: 19463&quot;]The interesting thing here in my view is the reversal of generations.&nbsp; We are more accustomed to millennials who don&#039;t understand the old man&#039;s hobby of collecting but humor him.&nbsp;&nbsp; I for one would be thrilled to have a child/grandchild who had the slightest interest in Nerva or 200 other famous Romans rather than at least that many stars of You Tube.&nbsp; Having two generations who respect each other&#039;s hobby is special.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coin:&nbsp; Great choice!&nbsp; How did your father come to select Nerva?&nbsp; I find him to be a particularly significant figure among the less than common personalities.&nbsp; He ruled for a very short time but &#039;invented&#039; the concept of selecting a successor worthy of the position rather than from a DNA test.&nbsp; Without Nerva, we would have had no Trajan/Hadrian/Pius &quot;good&quot; emperors that made Rome the place to be if only for a little less than a century.&nbsp; We can not include Marcus Aurelius as a &quot;good&quot; because of what he did to history by having a son.&nbsp; How would history have been different if Aurelius had been childless?&nbsp; Might he have adopted Pescennius Niger or Pertinax (names to drop within earshot of your father)?</p><p><br /></p><p>Nerva coins are &#039;graded&#039; like all others on preservation but also based on style.&nbsp; The uglier the portrait, the better we like the coin.&nbsp; The examples shown by the members above demonstrate the range available.&nbsp; Your coin is pretty good or should I say pretty ugly in terms of the nose???&nbsp; I really would like to know what he really looked like.&nbsp; </p><p>denarius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]588305[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>dupondius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]588306[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another point to consider for those shopping for a Nerva is the fact that the early coins of Nerva&#039;s successor Trajan bear the name Nerva and borrow a bit of the facial structure until the mint workers got used to cutting dies with the new features.&nbsp; The denarius below demonstrates a trap waiting for those who buy without reading the whole legend.&nbsp; Coins like this but with unfortunate centering have been known to be sold for something they are not. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]588307[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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