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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7727126, member: 98035&quot;]Great discussion points all!</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I&#039;m surprised at how many people here have Manlia Scantilla and Didia Clara but no Julianus - I hadn&#039;t realized how popular the &quot;one of each empress&quot; sets were! I have two ugly denarii of both</p><p><br /></p><p>Manila Scantilla</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1324177[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Didia Clara</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1324178[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>2) In response to [USER=75936]@GregH[/USER], I consider Julianus to have the shortest reign of any Senate-approved, uncontested emperor - we don&#039;t really know how long Julianus was &quot;uncontested&quot; (it was however long it took news to spread to Severus, Albinus, and Niger) but for at least a few weeks nobody challenged his claim to the purple - the same cannot be said of Gordians I &amp; II.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) I honestly can&#039;t blame him for trying to buy the throne from the Praetorians - he was disliked, but seems to have been a competent politician and commander. Once he was secure in the purple, had three usurpers not risen up against him, he would have had plenty of options to muster up the 25,000 sesterces per head. Taxes, conquests, selling all of Commodus&#039; junk - a sufficiently skilled leader could have pulled it off.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) What does crack me up is how his final moments on earth were spent blubbering about &quot;What did I do? I didn&#039;t kill anyone.&quot; While Dio (the only surviving eyewitness to his rule) explicitly states that he indiscriminately had his guard kill the crowd that was jeering at him. I guess lowly Plebs don&#039;t count then?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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