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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2920732, member: 84744&quot;]Awesome! Another neat thing about the type is that it was struck shortly before his assassination in 192.&nbsp; I got this one from NFA a long time ago:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]707109[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Since then it has been my only Commodus (though now I&#039;m wanting one as Caesar like [USER=76194]@Sallent[/USER]&#039;s very nice denarius).</p><p><br /></p><p>I always wonder how much the &quot;bad&quot; emperors have been unfairly maligned by history.&nbsp; In this connection, I found a page that Warren linked a few days ago quite interesting.&nbsp; In the Trajan Decius DIVI series, the types are of varying rarities, and the rarity seems to track the number of dies &amp; thus the number of coins originally produced:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.qblay.com/DiviSeries/English/rareza.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>If we surmise that the number of coins produced reflects the general popularity of that emperor in the 250s, it&#039;s interesting to note where Commodus falls.&nbsp; More popular than both Marcus Aurelius and Septimius Severus?&nbsp; Surprising to us!&nbsp; (Sadly, that doesn&#039;t mean he <i>didn&#039;t</i> do all that crazy stuff, as we can appreciate only too well in current times.&nbsp; Perhaps he was popular <i>because</i> of all that crazy stuff. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie88" alt=":sour:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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