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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4171812, member: 75937&quot;]I had a bad bout with the flu last week. I got pneumonia as a complication and had to go to the ER on Thursday and am at last on the mend. The good news was that I had plenty of time with my coins and here at CT during my convalescence.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday, <i>gratias Aesculapio</i>, I was well enough to go back to work. One of the young women I work with said, &quot;You&#039;re back to work already? I thought pneumonia killed old people!&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie81" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]rYETHsxAv8c[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I&#039;m old -- maybe even in the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I started wondering about who might have been the oldest person on one of my coins. We often think of Nerva as an &quot;old emperor,&quot; but he was only 67 when he died. I thought maybe it was Antoninus Pius, who died at 74 (AD 86-161), but he wasn&#039;t the oldest, either. I think that honor goes to Tiberius, who died at 78. Tiberius, the old man. Tiberius, who happens to have been my avatar here for years ... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Post your coins with old people on them!</i></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/tiberius-denarius-jpg.852995/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Tiberius, AD 14-37.</p><p>Roman AR Denarius, 3.87 g, 18.5 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Lugdunum, AD 16-37.</p><p>Obv: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head, right.</p><p>Rev: PONTIF MAXIM, Female figure seated right, holding long olive branch and inverted spear; legs of chair ornate, triple line below.</p><p>Refs: RIC 28; BMCRE 42-44; RSC 16b; RCV 1763 var.</p><p>Notes: The identity of the female figure on the reverse is uncertain and has been variously identified as Livia, Justitia or Pax.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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