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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7631810, member: 115909&quot;]Not long ago I posted my first ever denarius. One from the reign of Hadrian.</p><p><br /></p><p>I said I was going to focus on the “Five Good Emperors” first and I managed to pick up 2 more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mostly because I have a certain respect towards how they helped Ancient Rome rise and thrive.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Titus, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus, and Marcus had no need of praetorian cohorts, or of countless legions to guard them, but were defended by their own good lives, the good-will of their subjects, and the attachment of the senate.”</p><p>- Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;..the Roman Empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of wisdom and virtue&quot;.</p><p>- Edward Gibbon “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I picked up Trajan &amp; Antoninus Pius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now all that’s left to get is Nerva and Marcus Aurelius <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1312893[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1312894[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1312895[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1312896[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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