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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 425654, member: 9204&quot;]For entirely non-numismatic reasons:</p><p>1. Antoninus Pius - had a long, prosperous, and peaceful reign. You know its good when, in an overview Roman Civ course, the professor only says. &quot;He was a good Emperor, nothing really bad happened, and Rome prospered under him.:</p><p>2. Trajan - extended the empire as far as it would ever be, adding the provinces of Dacia and, for a brief time, Mesopotamia.</p><p>3. Marcus Aurelius - essentially the same person as Antoninus Pius, only better. And with infinitely worse timing: plagues, famines, and barbarian invasions ravaged the empire during his reign. In my opinon, his only mistake was the return to hereditary rule.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you were to ask which emperor had the greatest concern for his subjects, I would venture to guess Domitius Domitianus, a usurper in Egypt in 296 and 297 AD. By reforming the coinage of Egypt from the monolothic tetradrachm-only standard, he attempted to free the province from the total economic domination of the central government, thereby greatly improving the lot fo even the average Egyptian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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