The Caesars by Emperor Julian

A few days ago I found myself reading a number of the Emperor Julian's works, one of which is titled The Caesars. The Caesars is a short comedy sketch made by Emperor Julian to poke fun at or revere his predecessors. It shows a rare glimpse of what later Romans thought of their former Emperors; I admit I was shocked that Julian revered Nerva as much as he did. I think that you will be surprised at some of the material as well.
I thought that maybe we could post our coins from the Emperors mentioned and have a bit of a competition, like the first person who can post a coin from all the Emperors in bold print gets a prize. So start where it mentions Julius Caesar and end at Magnentius. Though leave off Vindex, I don't know why Julian considered him an Emperor. That and I don't know of anybody that has a coin of his
I will not post it here as it would take up an entire page.
Here is the link.
http://www.attalus.org/translate/caesars.html
I'll start us off with Octavianus

3.7 Grams
18mm

 

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I've jokingly said before that a Forty-Six Caesars set of Julian would make for an interesting collecting alternative to the traditional Twelve. I don't think the idea caught on . Anyway, here's my JC...

 

So to clarify who ever posts his/her coins of the Emperors mentioned in the link by Emperor Julian will get a nice prize from me.
Also post your coins of the said Emperors if you want to.

 

If you want to be boring and not look at the text, here are the coins of Emperors you need to post.
Julius Caesar
Octavian/Augustus
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Galba
Otho
Vitellius
Vespasian
Titus
Domitian
Nerva
Trajan
Hadrian
Antoninus Pius
Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus
Commodus
Pertinax
Septimius Severus
Caracalla & Geta
Macrinus
Elagabalus
Severus Alexander
Valerian & Gallienus
Claudius Gothicus
Aurelian
Carinus
Diocletian
Maximian
Maxentius
Constantius I
Constantine I
Magnentius.

 

Julius Caesar


Octavian


Tiberius


Caligula


Claudius


Nero


Galba


Otho


Vitellius


Vespasian

 

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Titus

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Domitian

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Nerva

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Trajan

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Hadrian

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Antoninus Pius


Marcus Aureleus


Lucius Verus

 

Mag Max: I have them all, but it is not letting me post anymore. Says View Attachment. Forum probly feels that it is a spam overload since I am posting a lot of pics. Stopping posts.

 

Hi @Alegandron,
Wow! A winner already!!!
Send me a pm and you can email me the rest.

 

Do you get a prize if you have no one on that list?

 

A lot of people think Ben Franklin was a president, so maybe perhaps Vindex being emperor was a common misconception then.

 

Well Algeandron is missing Pertinax so the race is still on!

 

Brian wins! Congrats. I don't have a Pertinax (or a Vindex) anyway.

 

@Bing Brian gets an honorable mention prize but he doesn't get the grand prize! He is missing Pertinax!

 

Sorry Gang, my mistake: I do NOT have Pertinax! Still 1 of 8 that I am missing...

 

No Pertinax

 

Alright there is still time for me to catch up lol.