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Offline David Atherton

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Tiberius ... the Good?
« on: June 05, 2021, 09:20:19 am »
I'd like to share my most recent Flavian restoration coin, an As struck for Tiberius.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=170610

An odd choice for recoining if you ask me.

Thanks for looking!

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Re: Tiberius ... the Good?
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2021, 02:57:39 pm »
Hi DA,

Nice Coin! :)

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Re: Tiberius ... the Good?
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2021, 03:34:11 pm »
Just confirms we can't always trust Suetonius...

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Re: Tiberius ... the Good?
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2021, 09:27:06 pm »
Very nice acquisition David. Congrats

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Re: Tiberius ... the Good?
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2021, 08:10:18 am »
Just confirms we can't always trust Suetonius...

Given The Twelve Caesars was written almost 200 years or so after Julius Caesar's demise, I think we can conclude the earlier parts of Suetonius are unlikely to be wholly accurate and would be colored by the propaganda of later rulers designed to further political interests long after a reign was over. 

Putting things in perspective, how accurate would a book about the American founding fathers be today if there was limited or no access to original source materials apart from building inscriptions, no internet, and few libraries.  Much would likely be based on oral histories and frightful fancy.
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Re: Tiberius ... the Good?
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2021, 05:51:37 pm »
Roman historians were senators, or closely connected with the senate.
So if an emperor let the senate run on long reins and left a lot of decisions to the senate, he could be sure to go down in history as a good emperor. If he wanted to keep tight control of the senate, we know him as a monster and/or an idiot today. The ancient version of Fake News.

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Re: Tiberius ... the Good?
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2021, 07:39:58 pm »
I'm pretty sure Tiberius was just writing poems and growing flowers in Capri ...
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Re: Tiberius ... the Good?
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2021, 04:31:46 am »
Probably not. ;) But we do know that people, senate and military mourned or rejoiced quite differently at the death of some emperors.

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Re: Tiberius ... the Good?
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2021, 09:17:36 am »
Nice coin and interesting points.

 

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