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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2551052, member: 76194&quot;]Once again, ouch on the $660, but I&#039;m very happy you finally decided to join us here. Feel free to PM me any time you are considering buying anything. I&#039;m far from an expert, as I&#039;ve only been collecting ancients for a year, but I&#039;m happy to give you any advise I can on any coin, and if I don&#039;t know then maybe I can refer you to someone that can.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>And about Tiberius, </b>sure, he would be a pedophile, a mass murderer, and a third world dictator by today&#039;s standards, but by ancient standards he was a capable Emperor. Yes,&nbsp; his semi-retirement and poor choice for head of the praetorian guard were huge errors, and his reputation suffered greatly for that. But he maintained the empire stable and prosperous, and managed military and fiscal affairs with great skill and talent. I don&#039;t think it&#039;s fair to judge ancients or medieval people by today&#039;s standards. Even&nbsp; great Emperors like Hadrian or Trajan would be savage warlords and dictators if you compared them to the things we expect of our modern leaders. Things were very different in a pre-industrial world with no concept of human rights, no global institutions, and no international political frameworks that we now take for granted, so you have to judge them based on how they were for their times.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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