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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4021020, member: 87200"]You've picked out some interesting areas for study and as you say, the coins of the adoptive emperors are pretty affordable in reasonable condition so I agree with you. Because of the long reigns of these emperors (except for Nerva) large quantities of coins were struck in their names. As Edward Gibbon says in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>"If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus."</i></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4021020, member: 87200"]You've picked out some interesting areas for study and as you say, the coins of the adoptive emperors are pretty affordable in reasonable condition so I agree with you. Because of the long reigns of these emperors (except for Nerva) large quantities of coins were struck in their names. As Edward Gibbon says in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: [INDENT][I]"If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus."[/I][/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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