Rome: The Flavian, Adoptive and Antonine Emperors

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In 69 AD Vespasian, a general who had been prominent in the conquest of Britain under Claudius, was proclaimed emperor. He was a fair, if stingy, emperor. He was followed by his son Titus, during whose reign Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii and Herculaneum. After Titus came his younger brother, Domitian, a tyrant who was assassinated in 96 AD. The Senate voted the elderly Nerva to the vacant post. He only lived a little over a year, but he adopted Trajan to be his successor. This started a train of fairly benevolent "adoptive" emperors. Under the likes of Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius, Rome's "golden age" was played out. With the accession of yet another tyrant, Commodus, in 180 AD, Rome started it's decline.

List of Emperors

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Vespasian 1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD AR Denarius	Vespasian 1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD AE As	Vespasian 1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD AR Denarius
Vespasian 1st July 69 AD - 23rd June 79 AD AR Denarius	Titus as Caesar Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 79-81AD Brass Dupondius	Titus as Caesar Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 79-81AD AR Denarius
Titus as Augustus Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 79-81AD AR Denarius	Domitian: Caesar under Vespasian Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 81-96AD AR Denarius	Domitian: Caesar under Titus Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 81-96AD AR Denarius
Domitian Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 81-96AD AE As (Orichalam)	Domitian Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 81-96AD AR Denarius	Domitian Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 81-96AD Plated Denarius (fouree)
Domitia wife of Domitian Caesar 69-79AD: Augustus 81-96AD AE 17 of Lydia, Thyatira	Nerva 18th Sept. 96 AD - 28th Jan. 98 AD AR Denarius	Nerva 18th Sept. 96 AD - 28th Jan. 98 AD AR Denarius
Trajan 28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD AR Denarius	Trajan 28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD AR Denarius	Trajan 28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD AR Denarius
Trajan 28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD AE Sestertius	Trajan 28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD AR Denarius	Trajan 28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD Brass Dupondius
Trajan 28th Jan. 98 AD - 7th Aug. 117 AD AE Quadrans	Hadrian 11th Aug. 117 - 10th July 138 AD AE Sestertius	Hadrian 11th Aug. 117 - 10th July 138 AD AR Denarius
Hadrian 11th Aug. 117 - 10th July 138 AD Brass Dupondius	Sabina wife of Hadrian m. 100 AD: d. 136/7 AD AR Denarius	Aelius 136 - 1st Jan. 138 AD AE Sestertius
Aelius 136 - 1st Jan. 138 AD AR Denarius	Antoninus Pius Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD AR Denarius	Antoninus Pius Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD AR Denarius
Antoninus Pius Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD AE Sestertius	Antoninus Pius Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD AE As	Antoninus Pius Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161 AD AE Sestertius
Antoninus Pius (posthumous) Caes. 138AD: Aug. 138-161AD AR Denarius	Faustina Senior wife of Antoninus Pius AR Denarius	Marcus Aurelius Caes. 139-161AD: Aug. 161-180AD AR Denarius
Marcus Aurelius Caes. 139-161AD: Aug. 161-180AD AR Denarius	Marcus Aurelius Caes. 139-161AD: Aug. 161-180AD AR Denarius	Faustina Junior wife of Marcus Aurelius AR Denarius
Lucius Verus 161 - 169 AD AR Denarius	Lucilla wife of Lucius Verus daughter of Marcus Aurelius AR Denarius	Commodus Caes. 175-177AD: Aug. 180-192AD AR Denarius
Commodus Caes. 175-177AD: Aug. 180-192AD AR Denarius	Crispina wife of Commodus m. 178 AD - d. 189 AD AE Sestertius

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