Ancient Coins: The 5 Good Emperors

The Second Century AD was a golden age for the Roman Empire. 5 virtuous emperors ruled back to back, bringing their empire to a level of prosperity and success Rome would never again see in its history.
The economic prosperity ushered by their competent reigns resulted on a vast coinage of all metals reaching our days. Today, we´re taking a look at some of the coinage of these Emperors.
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[@lr6648]

This was not only the height of Roman society but Roman Coinage (coins of this era are my favorite)

[@skuul666]

I'd like to give an honorary mention to two overlooked guys from this era: Lucius Aelius and Lucius Verus. Aelius was the adopted son of Hadrian for a little over a year, before his untimely death in 138 AD. Antoninus Pius was adopted next (just shortly before Hadrians death), on condition that he would assign Marcus Aurelius (Pius' nephew) and Lucius Verus (son of Aelius) as co-emperors upon his death. The fact that this indeed happened almost 23 years later is a good sign of stability in the empire :-)

[@godwolf2090]

I started with a sestertius of Nerva and now working on trajan, would love to have a sestertius and AS and denarius of all 5, it’s my first short term goal for collecting

[@darthrevan2723]

Domitian was a top tier emperor. He reformed the currency and expanded the empires defenses.

[@Roma_eterna]

You are correct in thinking that Domitian was more competent than people give him credit for. I think it was the same for Nero. Actually, come to think of it, a lot of the bad emperors were actually not bad, as far as administration goes.

[@BopWalk]

This video is very comprehensive, a true gem!

[@antoniusbritannia8217]

Early on I started focusing on collecting Hadrian's coins. Collecting all the emperors and time periods of Roman history seemed too daunting of a task. Great thing about Hadrian was his long rule and relative prosperity led to a nice variety of coins from Rome and the various provincial mints.

[@francismceachern2406]

Great video. This is where I started my collection!

[@blakes8288]

I’ve just started collecting Ancient Roman coins after finishing my degree in Classical History. All of my coins are graded by NGC though and I’ve got Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus Pius, Lucius Verus and Commodus denarius coins. I just need Nerva and I’ll have all 5 good emperors. Oh and I also picked up a Roman silver “Quadrigatus” (6.6 grams) from 242-214 BC during the Second Punic War. The predecessor to the denarius which may have been a didrachm at the time.

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Nice! I love the quadrigatus

[@Numischannel]

Marcus Aurelius was one of the very few "actually" Roman emperors... he was one of the very few emperors born in Rome 😄

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

True! Even Antoninus, who stayed in Italy pretty much all of his life, was born on a small town outside of Rome!

[@Belowbluewaterdiver]

Poor Lucius Verus never gets any love :( 6 good emperors of Rome Great video and great coins!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Verus only wanted to party and drink, the mad lad! Good thing Marcus was around to clean up his mess :P

[@Numischannel]

@@ClassicalNumismatics That's very true! But he had one merit, he never conspired agains his partner and father-in-law....

[@michaeldob2153]

@@Numischannel Unfortunalety that is not so true. Historia Augustorum uses a rhetorical term which glorifies Mark Auerlius and damns Lucius Verus. But his father in law conspired against Lucius. And at the end Luciu's wife and daughter have been killed by Commodus. A sad stroy found its end....

[@markp44288]

Excellent portrait of Nerva!!

[@BullionBeast]

That's funny, that a while back i told myself i was going to put a "5 good Emperor" set together, that's cool to see that's a normal thing people do.

[@darbysdownhomedetecting]

Just got my first silver Romen coin the other day for my coin collection. An denarius of Antoninus pius. Beautiful coin. Thanks for all the information! Love the channel!!!

[@johannwolfgangohngemach2164]

I absolutely LOVE all of your videos! I am new in Greek and Roman coins - But I am actually gobsmacked about the beauty of the designs - And I like so much the imperfections of them as they were made by hand ... Total craftmanship! Have you got any videos about Olynthos and the Chalkidian league?

[@Numischannel]

¡Muy bien explicado!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Gracias! :)

[@RizzstrainingOrder66]

thank you a lot for this video, love it

[@guh967]

I just got my first denarius! It’s a lovely Trajan. It’s shipping soon : ) It’ll be my second oldest coin and my first silver ancient coin

[@johnpalacios5914]

I want to collect the Marcus Aurelias.

[@PopeLando]

I didn't even know I was building a 5 Good Emperors collection, I just happen to have wound up with 2 Trajans, 2 Hadrians and an Antoninus Pius. But then a couple of "not-so-Good Emperors" from later like Caracalla and Severus Alexander and a Julia Maesa.

[@johnyounardi8749]

Awesome interpretation my friend just awesome … more into Roman and Egyptian world matters thru old coins thank you !!!

[@asheland_numismatics]

I really like this channel! 😀

[@lukromanczuk]

Fav period.

[@boomxmilizexpathacks9440]

Nerva reminds me of Juan Carlos in Spain. Raised to be a puppet but showed free will and created a democracy. I am happy to hear anything pro or con. Studying in Granada in 2002, I got mostly an Andalusian point of view.

[@johannwolfgangohngemach2164]

Quite far from the truth - He was behind the creation of a fake democracy where political power is full of corruption.

[@toptime2575]

Me encanta como recreas los retratos y figuras de la moneda, ¿Realizas tu las imágenes o donde las consigues? Me gustaría saber!! Genial video, amigo!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Las hago yo mismo :)

[@toptime2575]

@@ClassicalNumismatics Que talento!!

[@ytzhou7376]

My very first denarius is a Nerva, as i always want to collect imperial coinages follwing the time order😂

[@ianofliverpool7701]

I would say the best golden era was between 1955 and 1995 in the west.

[@caesar_hunter]

Hello! Like !

[@asheland_numismatics]

I have Faustina Senior and junior

[@dracmasydenarios]

Este no lo vi en su momento!!

[@nicbergmanforvermont9515]

9:09 Geta and Diadumenian didn't have beards

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Geta did have a beard in his later coinage.

[@SpiceySpinster]

I have a gold coin. It looks like ancient Roman coin.