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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2916660, member: 19463&quot;]After completing a &#039;good&#039; set, I hope everyone will be driven to add the rest of the dynasty that was not known for being good but every bit as important to history.&nbsp; As part of the &#039;deal&#039; for becoming emperor. Antoninus Pius had to adopt two boys.&nbsp; Both succeeded him as co-Augusti (a first for Rome).&nbsp; I believe it is wrong to omit Lucius Verus who served as equal partner to Marcus Aurelius until his death in 169.&nbsp; He was not a bad emperor by any means if not as extra specially good as Marcus.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]705322[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;big&#039; lesson few seem to have taken from the &#039;good&#039; emperors is how well the idea of adopting a worthwhile successor worked as opposed to leaving the Empire to a natural son simply not up to the task.&nbsp; If Marcus had really had the best interest of Rome at heart, he could have spared us Commodus and adopted a reasonable replacement for himself.&nbsp; To illustrate this we need a coin of his natural and &#039;ungood&#039; son Commodus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]705323[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, Marcus&#039; error was corrected to some degree when civil war victor Septimius Severus announced on coins that he was son of the divine Marcus.&nbsp; This reverse adoption could have spared us the need for the ugliness of 193 and several scarce rulers that many have trouble affording as well.&nbsp; The Septimius sestertius below shows the reverse legend DIVI M PII F followed by PM TRP III COS II PP.&nbsp; To illustrate the reverse adoption, you need to seek out a coin at least as clear as this one on the left side.&nbsp; That is not as easy as you might wish.&nbsp; It turned out that Marcus did the right thing for Rome after all - he just did it after his death.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]705324[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If it seems to you that I am trying to push you out of the feeling you have a complete set and into buying even more addictive coins, you are most certainly correct. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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