..New Trajan takes it place in the 5(6) 'Good' in silver

...i noticed the other day i was still posting old pics of my 5(6) gooduns that included a Trajan that now belongs to another great coin peep here..so... this'll do for now.."new & improved"


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I'd love to complete a denarius set of the 5 good'uns.
That's a great looking Trajan too.

 

Nice set! I don't have it in silver, nor do I have all, but my best effort at "some" good emperors:
Nerva has thus far eluded my bottom-feeding efforts.

Trajan: Syrian drachm


Hadrian: poorly electrolyzed sestertius


Antoninus Pius: Macedonian big boy


Marcus Aurelius: squared off sestertius

 

That Marcus Aurelius is solid! Love it!

 

My lot of the goodies!

 

Ok, here are my 5 Good Ones....

Nerva (most I've ever spend on a coin ever!)



Trajan (one of my favorite coins of all time)



Hadrian (beautiful coin IMO but not a denarius)



Antoninus Pius (he looks like a zombie IMO)


Marcus Aurelius (my first ancient ever purchased...also not a denarius)

 

..bronze is a great 5(6) too ..and the 1st way i got'em all... @furryfrog02 & @hotwheelsearl

 

Nerva:



Trajan:


Hadrian:


Antoninus Pius


Marcus Aurelius:



And a set in bronze:

 

Nice coins, and your new trajan is a great addition. I really like your MA denarius, with the VIC PAR reverse.
Here's my digital tray of the good (well, not all of them are good...) emperors:

 

RI Nerva AE Dupondius 96-98 CE LIBERTAS PVBLICA -pileus TIF


RI Trajan CE 98-117 AR Drachm Struck CE 114-116 Arabia Petraea Bostra - Camel SNG ANS 1158


RI Hadrian AR Quinarius 1.3g, 14mm Rome, AD 119-122 cuirassed laureate COS III Victory seated wreath palm RIC 108a


RI Antoninus Pius 138-161 BCE BI Tet Alexandria Egypt Dikaiosyne Scale


RI MARCUS AURELIUS AR Denarius as Caesar TR POT VI COS II - Genius stg at altar hldg standard VF

 

Lovely coins everyone!..Behind every good man there's always a good women...
An interesting addition to the Emperors are their wives, three of them being easily reachable with the exception of Plotina...

 

Yes, getting the lot in bronzes is another great collecting goal! Im working my wat towards that goal slowly, but almost there. Im lacking a sestertius of Aelius, though ons can debate whether he should or should not be part of the set. I like the idea of adding the empresses too, as @Spaniard has done. Great set.

 

The five good guys come up here often enough that I wish I had enough examples to show a different one each time but I am particularly weak in Nerva. I have never owned a sestertius of Nerva but have a dupondius all here have seen.
The denarius is the more recent of my two and shares the handshake motif with the bronze.

For Trajan, my favorites have both been shown here but it seems the types are not popular among other CT members. The AE as shows a club standing on the lion skin of Hercules.


The denarius honors his biological father DIVVS PATER TRAIAN. To the best of my knowledge this coin is alone showing an adoptee honoring his biological family.


I have more Hadrian coins than the other good guys so picking one was more difficult. These may not be my favorites but they are not in danger of being sent off to market anytime soon. The as shows Hadrian raising a personification of Africa and appealed to me for its clear legends and green patina.


This denarius showing Victory spitting into her dress may not have been posted before. The design is better known from its use by Claudius a century earlier.


The sestertius of Antoninus Pius is not high grade but shows the heads of two of his grandchildren atop crossed cornucopia. Experts do not all agree on which two they were. Again the type was first used during the Julio-Claudian period.


While I tend to avoid coins showing someone 'just standing there', this Pius denarius shows the Senate being honored by Pius after they gave in and deified Hadrian as he requested. GENIO SENATVS


Marcus Aurelius is known for several things and has many interesting types. This sestertius shows him raising Italy. RESTITVTORI ITALIAE


Finally, my Aurelius denarius for this group shows a captive from the Armenian wars.

 

..yup!..i'm still a few short but that's a new goal

 

Excellent examples, @dougsmit . I particularly like the Antonius Pius Genio Senatus denarius - never seen this type.

 

I've posted all or most of these before, but never all together, and I thought I'd try that. Even though of course they can't be seen nearly as well or as clearly as individually, it gives an idea. A little better if you click on the photos, although you still can't really see the Marcus Aurelius RESTITUTOR ITALIAE sestertius well, or the two Lucius Veruses. So here are the five good Emperors, plus Lucius Verus. Note the great imbalance in the numbers I have for each -- 1, 5, 12, 6, 4, 2. Perhaps sometime I'll try it with all the empresses I have added in.

 

Here are my 5 good emperors

 

Here's the rest of the Emperors

 

The two Lucius Veruses and the Marcus Aurelius sestertius didn't really show up at all well in the tray photos -- I'm a bit surprised at how well one can see what most of the others look like -- so here they are again for the sake of completeness. (I already put all the coins back where they belong in their own trays, so I can't just photograph that tray again.)

I think the Imperial and Provincial portraits of Lucius Verus resemble each other much more closely than one usually sees in comparing Imperial and Provincial portraits of a given emperor.