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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3055311, member: 74834"]It certainly is a difficult criterium: separating the Good Ones from the Baddies. The first principle of coin interest is: <i>Do Whatever You Want!</i> I often think about the good and the bad in collecting. But what you think about rulers is all in your head. </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman history may look all clear because you learned good old standard history, Edward Gibbon, Sallust and all, but many facts our school history teached us have grown unsure, or patent lies. Constantine the Great and his family was not so holy. Alexander the Great may be compared with Genghis Khan, Cyrus the Great is only a Good Man through the eyes of Xenophon and many emperors were not so bad as historians in the service of their victorious adversaries try to let us believe. </p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III may have succumbed on the battlefield, probably he was not murdered by Philip the Arab; Valerian may have lived in peace in a luxurious Persian prison instead of meeting a gruesome end. Commodus was vilified and probably never fought as a gladiator himself. Some things I recently learned. </p><p><br /></p><p>Keeping a historical distance, that's what I do, so I can put Caracalla AND Geta AND Macrinus AND Elagabalus in my collection. AND rulers I don't know anything about, like the one on this little Soghdian coin (700 AD) with his quirky smile. Was he a bad ruler? A good one? I'm the happy ignoramus. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]765420[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3055311, member: 74834"]It certainly is a difficult criterium: separating the Good Ones from the Baddies. The first principle of coin interest is: [I]Do Whatever You Want![/I] I often think about the good and the bad in collecting. But what you think about rulers is all in your head. Roman history may look all clear because you learned good old standard history, Edward Gibbon, Sallust and all, but many facts our school history teached us have grown unsure, or patent lies. Constantine the Great and his family was not so holy. Alexander the Great may be compared with Genghis Khan, Cyrus the Great is only a Good Man through the eyes of Xenophon and many emperors were not so bad as historians in the service of their victorious adversaries try to let us believe. Gordian III may have succumbed on the battlefield, probably he was not murdered by Philip the Arab; Valerian may have lived in peace in a luxurious Persian prison instead of meeting a gruesome end. Commodus was vilified and probably never fought as a gladiator himself. Some things I recently learned. Keeping a historical distance, that's what I do, so I can put Caracalla AND Geta AND Macrinus AND Elagabalus in my collection. AND rulers I don't know anything about, like the one on this little Soghdian coin (700 AD) with his quirky smile. Was he a bad ruler? A good one? I'm the happy ignoramus. [ATTACH=full]765420[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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