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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4173880, member: 96898"]Glad to hear that you are back on your feet again! Pneumonia is a most nasty business – I hope you were able to take enough time off to regain your full strength and are fully recovered by now. That's my new definition of offensive tactlessness. (And I say this as a person who, measured by the average age of this forum, is quite young.) Here are a Tiberius as well as a drachm of Ariobarzanes I showing the Cappadocian king in his mature years. He aged quite well, I find. [ATTACH=full]1074697[/ATTACH] Tiberius, Roman Empire, denarius, 15–18 AD, Lyon mint. Obv: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate portrait right. Rev: PONTIF MA[XIM], Livia as Pax seated right on chair with ornately decorated legs, holding sceptre (or spear) and branch. 18mm, 2.8g. Ref: RIC I Tiberius 28; Giard: Le monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon 1 (1983), group 2, 146. [ATTACH=full]1074696[/ATTACH] Ariobarzanes I. Philorhomaios, Kingdom of Cappadocia, AR drachm, 66/65 BC, Eusebeia mint. Obv: Diademed head right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ APIOBAPZANOY ΦIΛOPΩMAIOY, Athena standing left, holding shield, spear and Nike; to left monogram, Λ in exergue (off flan). 17mm, 4.3g. Ref: Simonetta 1977, no. 43. Also, it's good to hear that you are doing so well, [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER] ! I have to say that I truly admire the way you handle and enjoy life at your age in such a wise and dignified manner.[/QUOTE]