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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 4556055, member: 42034&quot;]I agree that Elagabalus was quite bad.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t just sexual depravity and who knows how many of these stories were actually true?&nbsp; That&#039;s why it&#039;s important to post references.&nbsp; Elag also tried to change the fundamental religion of Rome. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of his most popular coins: mostly denarii but also antoninanni and aureii feature the &quot;Black Stone of Emesa&quot;&nbsp; being brought to Rome in a quadriga.&nbsp; This was an attempt to change the Roman religion.&nbsp; Also his reign ocurred just before the collapse of Roman hegemony: the period being known as the &quot;Miltary Crisis of the 3rd Century&quot; or &quot;The Age of Rust&quot; by the Roman historian Dio Cassius*.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>*I need to check this reference actually myself...</p><p><br /></p><p>My vote for one of the worst Emperors is Valens (364 - 378 AD).&nbsp; While he didn&#039;t have many listed depravities he also lost the entire Roman Army at Hadrianopolis: opening up the West for invasions by the barbarians.&nbsp; This was a battle he should have won but his impetuousness caused a disaster for the struggling Roman Empire from which it would NOT recover.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I got an ms gold solidus of him.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128012[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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