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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Limes, post: 4371721, member: 101013&quot;]I have not posted in this thread before, but I really like reading it, and seeing everyone&#039;s coins. I thought I&#039;d finally join in, even though its a Sunday morning here... </p><p>Lately I&#039;ve been able to fill some holes in my imperial collection. Not all that much special coins, but nice one nevertheless. </p><p><br /></p><p>First stop: Geta is Augustus. I really like this one, the adult portrait with beard and noticable friendly look. On the contrary, his brother is depicted on coins like he would have murdered even his own brother. Oh... wait... </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103814[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next stop: Severus Alexander, the boy whose grandmother and mother were de facto emperor. Fed up with Severus Alexander&#039;s complete lack of military talent and bravoure, the army murdered the emperor and his mother in a military camp in Germany. Thus ending the Severan dynasty, but also initiating an era of utter chaos and in which military soldiers were being proclaimed emperor by their armies one after the other. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103815[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, my first denarius of such a military emperor: Maximinus I Thrax. Proclaimed emperor after Severus Alexander was murdered by the army, he - like all of the soldier emperors after him - was murdered by the army not that long after. In a period lasting 50 years, van Meter counts 34 emperors and at least 50 usurpers.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103816[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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