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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2695541, member: 82549&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting bronze coins of Constantine the Great for awhile now (<a href="http://feltemp.com/Constantine_1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://feltemp.com/Constantine_1.html" rel="nofollow">http://feltemp.com/Constantine_1.html</a>). Yet the more I learn about the man the less I admire him. Would it make more sense to collect coins of someone I admire? If so, who?</p><p><br /></p><p>Seems like a good question to throw out to the discussion group. Who among the ancient leaders depicted on ancient coins do you admire, and why? I&#039;ll go first. Although I don&#039;t know that much about him as a person, I really admire Marcus Aurelius because he was able to successfully lead the empire through such grave difficulties, including plague and barbarian invasions, while still remaining--at least, as far as I know--a genuinely decent person.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://feltemp.com/Images/GoldenAge/MarcusAurelius.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Provincial Bronze (AE26)</p><p>Moesia Inferior, Nikopolis ad Istrum, before A.D. 161</p><p>Obv: AVPHΛIOC OVHPOC KAICAP</p><p>Rev: NEIKOΠOΛEITΩNΠPOC IC - Serapis, standing left, holding scepter and sacrificing with patera over altar.</p><p>Unlisted in Moushmov or RPC; unpublished?</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your coins of people that you admire along with your reason(s) for doing so.</p><p>26mm, 11.0g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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