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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3050582, member: 76086&quot;]Has anyone else ever wondered...why does Janus feature prominently on Republican coins but very rarely on Imperial?&nbsp; With the exception of a few rarities they primarily appear for Pertinax and Geta.&nbsp; Pertinax I can understand.&nbsp; His major fault was that he wished to change just about everything and to fix all the problems the empire was experiencing during his time.&nbsp; Looking to the past for him was also looking to the future.&nbsp; I get that and why he issued coins with the theme.&nbsp; But why Geta?&nbsp; There doesn&#039;t seem to be any significant writing (that I am aware of) that would explain why he would issue such a coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>One can theorize of course.&nbsp; Was Geta referring to his father, Septimius, who accomplished a great deal in a very short time frame, or was he looking further into the past?&nbsp; The death of Marcus Aurelius was less than 20 years previous but many living people would certainly remember the time of the &#039;good&#039; emperors and all that it bought.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, of course, it could be a certain societal anomaly (compared to other cultures and times of course).&nbsp; In the US Ronald Reagan popularized a similar concept in 1980 during his debate with Jimmy Carter (which would be revisited by Barak Obama decades later).&nbsp; One might wonder if during this time people were looking only to the future and not the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course, the other part...why wasn&#039;t Janus featured after this?</p><p><br /></p><p>Food for thought...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]763315[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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