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104. Antoninus PiusDivus Antoninus Pius. Died A.D. 161. Æ sestertius under Marcus Aurelius, ca. A.D. 161.
Bare head right / Four-tiered funeral pyre, decorated with garlands, surmounted by quadriga. RIC 1266 (Marcus Aurelius); BMC 872 (Aurelius and Verus); Cohen 165.
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104. Antoninus PiusAntoninus Pius AE As, 139 AD.
Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS II, laureate head right
Rev: FELICITAS AVG, Felicitas standing facing, head left, holding caduceus and
branch, S-C across fields.
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104. Antoninus PiusAntoninus Pius, as Caesar, ? As. 138 AD. IMP T AELIVS CAESAR ANTONINVS, draped bust right / TRIB POT COS S-C, clasped hands holding grain ears and caduceus. RIC 1088b [Hadrian], Cohen 1067.
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104. Antoninus PiusDivus Antoninus Pius. Died AD 161. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.06 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus and Lucius, AD 161. Bare head right / Funeral pyre of four tiers, decorated with garlands and surmounted by facing quadriga. RIC III 436 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 27/4-10 (Aurelius); RSC 164. VF, lightly toned, small deposits on reverse. ecoli
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104. Antoninus Pius & Marcus AureliusAntoninus Pius & Marcus Aurelius
In preparation for the succession, Antoninus' daughter Faustina married Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 145 and she soon became Augusta in place of her deceased mother. Marcus Aurelius was associated in imperial powers and he and L. Verus both held the consulship multiple times in preparation for their accession. In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius expressed his enduring love and respect for his adoptive father: "Do all things as a disciple of Antoninus. Think of his constancy in every act rationally undertaken, his invariable equability, his piety, his serenity of countenance, his sweetness of disposition, his contempt for the bubble of fame, and his zeal for getting a true grasp of affairs."
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Sestertius. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right / AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII COS S-C. Cohen 34. ecoli
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104. Antonius PiusAntoninus Pius AE As. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, laureate head right / TR POT XIX COS IIII S-C in wreath. Cohen 999. Ric 958
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104a. Faustina SrDiva Faustina Sr Denarius.
DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right, hair in bun
AVGVSTA, Ceres standing, head right, holding corn ears & long scepter.
RIC 360, RSC 78.
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104a. Faustina Sr In Roman mythology, Pietas was the goddess of duty to one's state, gods and family.
Pietas was also one of the Roman virtues, along with gravitas and dignitas. Pietas is usually translated as "duty" or "devotion," and it simultaneously suggests duty to the gods and duty to family (which is expanded to duty to the community and duty to the state thanks to the analogy between the family and the state, conventional in the ancient world – see, for example, Plato's Crito). Vergil's hero Aeneas embodies this virtue, and is particularly emblematic of it in book II of the Aeneid when he flees burning Troy bearing his father on his back and carrying his household gods.
Faustina Sr Æ As. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right / AETERNITAS, SC in field, Pietas standing left, by altar, right hand raised, holding incense box in left hand.
RIC 1161, Cohen 43, BMC 1558
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105. Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius AE As. 164-165 AD. M ANTONINVS AVG P M, laureate head right / TR P XVIII IMP II COS III S-C, Victory advancing left bearing wreath & palm. RIC 884, Cohen 864.
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105b. Lucius VerusAequitas, also known as Aecetia, was the goddess of fair trade and honest merchants. Like Abundantia, she is depicted with a cornucopia, representing wealth from commerce. She is also shown holding a balance, representing equity and fairness. During the Roman Empire, Aequitas was sometimes worshipped as a quality or aspect of the emperor, under the name Aequitas Augusti.
Aequitas is the tattoo that one brother has on the film Boondock Saints. His brother has a tattoo of the word veritas. They represent, without surprise, justice/equality/balance/fairness and truth.
Aequitas is the source of the word equity, and also means "equality" or "justice".
Denarius. Rev. Aequitas stg. l. holding scales and cornucopiae. TR P VIII IMP V COS III. S-5363, RSC 32ecoli
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106. CommodusRev. Minerva dropping incense over candelabrum altar, legend IMP II (or III) COS II P P S C, a well-known sestertius type of Commodus as Augustus and TR P IIII, in 179 under Marcus.ecoli
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106. CommodusCommodus Æ Sestertius. Struck 183 AD. M COMMODVS ANTO-NINVS AVG PIVS, laureate head right / SALVS AVG TR P VIII IMP VI COS IIII P P, S C across, Salus standing left, holding sceptre and feeding a snake from a patera. ecoli
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106. CommodusCommodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 23.85 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 185. Laureate head right / Victory seated right on heap of stones with shields leaning against them, holding palm frond and shield set on knee; [VICT BRIT] in exergue. Cf. RIC III 451-2 (Victory seated directly on shields); Banti 486 (citing 3 for this variety). Fine, greenish-brown patina, roughness. ecoli
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Antoninus PiusAntoninus Pius AE As. 160-161. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP, laureate head right / TR POT XXIIII COS IIII S-C, Genius standing left sacrificing over altar from patera and holding sceptre. Cohen 1052.ecoli
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Antoninus PiusAntoninus Pius. A.D. 138-161. Æ as (26.0 mm, 9.23 g, 6 h). Rome mint, Struck A.D. 154-155. Rare. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP, laureate head right / FELICITAS AVGVSTI, SC, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopia. RIC 1067; BMCRE 1140 var (sestertius). gVF.ecoli
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Antoninus PiusAntoninus Pius. A.D. 138-161. AR denarius (17.1 mm, 2.80 g, 6 h). Rome mint, Struck A.D. 158-159. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP, laureate head right / TEMPL DIVI AVG REST, COS IIII, seated figures of Divus Augustus and Livia, set on podium, within octastyle temple. RIC 143; BMCRE 549; RSC 799b. VF.ecoli
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CommodusCommodus. AD 177-192. AR Denarius (17mm, 2.76 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 189. Laureate head right / FORTVNAE MA[NEN]TI around, C • V • P • P in exergue, Fortuna seated left, holding horse by bridle and cornucopia; rudder to right. RIC III 191a; MIR 18, 751-4/30; RSC 168a. VF, toned, some verdigris. Rare type.ecoli
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Commodus Commodus. A.D. 177-192. AR denarius (17.58 mm, 2.26 g, 5 h). sole reign: A.D. 180-192. Rome mint, struck A.D. 192. L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL, head of Commodus as Hercules right, wearing lion-skin headdress / HER - CVL / RO - MAN / AV - GV, legend in three lines divided vertically by club of Hercules, handle upwards; all within laurel-wreath. RIC III 251 ; RSC 190. near VF, flan crack at 1:00, lightly toned.
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Commodus.Commodus. A.D. 177-192. AR denarius (17.5 mm, 2.63 g, 1 h). Rome mint, A.D. 192. Rare. L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL, head right wearing lion's skin headdress / PROVIDENTIAE AVG, Commodus, as Hercules, standing left, foot on prow, holding club, clasping hands with Africa who is wearing elephant skin headdress and holding sistrum, a lion at her feet. RIC 259a; RSC 643; BMCRE 356. aVF, ecoli
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Diva Faustina IDiva Faustina I. Died A.D. 140/1. AR denarius (18 mm, 3.30 g, 6 h). Rome mint, Struck under Antoninus Pius, A.D. 146/7-161. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right / AETER-NITAS, Aeternitas (or Providentia) standing left, holding globe and billowing veil. RIC 351; RSC 32. Good VF.ecoli
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Faustina IDiva Faustina I. Died A.D. 140/1. AR denarius (18.5 mm, 2.90 g, 5 h). Rome mint, Dated A.D. 150. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / AED DIV FAVSTINAE, hexastyle temple with statue of Faustina within. RIC 343; RSC 1; BMCRE 339. Toned VF.ecoli
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Faustina II. Augusta, A.D. 147-175. AR denarius (17.8 mm, 3.25 g, 6 h). Rome mint, A.D. 154-157. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right, wearing stephane / SAECVLI FELICIT, two children (Commodus and Annius Verus) on draped throne. RIC 710; RSC 190. VF. fecoli
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Faustina SeniorDiva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 22.69 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 146-161. Draped bust right, wearing pearls bound on top of her head / AETERNITAS, S C in exergue, Faustina, holding scepter, seated right in carpentum drawn right by two elephants, which are ridden and led by mahouts. RIC III 1112 (Pius); Banti 26 (same dies as illustration). Fine, rough, green patina. Very rare with elephants right. Banti reports 13 examples with carpentum drawn left by two elephants, but only one example with carpentum drawn right.ecoli
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Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ As (26mm, 9.49 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 175. Laureate head right / Tiber reclining left, resting hand on boat. RIC III 1142; MIR 18, 290-9/30. VF, dark brown patina.
The chief river in central Italy, the Tiber rises as a small southwestern flow in the Apennines near Arretium, separating Etruria from Umbria and Latium. It flows 250 miles to the Mediterranean Sea at Ostia, joined by the Nar river after 110 miles, where its swift current is navigable but dangerous, and by the Teverone river 70 miles further on, where it becomes truly navigable, three miles north of Rome. Inside Rome, 22 miles from the coast, the Tiber is about 300 feet wide, 12-18 feet deep, and swift-moving, regularly overflowing its banks with heavy rains. Augustus created the office of curatores riparum et alvei Tiberis to deal with this recurring problem (Suetonius, Vita Divi Augusti 37). Muddy from the silt it carried (the Roman poets called it flavus tiberis), it formed Tiber Island at one bend in Rome and Insula Sacra, an island sacred to Venus 4 miles from the coast at Ostia,which was the ancient source of salt deposits.
The Tiber River is the symbolic father of Rome, guiding Aeneas in a dream to the future site of Rome (Vergil, AEN. VIII. 31-67), bearing the infant twins Romulus and Remus to safety, and serving as a safe and profitable pathway for early Roman commerce. ecoli
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Marcus Aurelius Roman Empire, Divo Marcus Aurelius d. 180, Sestertius, 19.68g: Obv: Head of Marcus Aurelius right "DIVVS M ANTONINVS" Rev: Eagle standing on an altar right, head left "[CONSECRAT]IO SC". RIC III 657.ecoli
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Marcus Aurelius.Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.16 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 164. Laureate head right / Armenia seated left in attitude of mourning, resting hand on bow to right; to left vexillum and shield. RIC III 81; MIR 18, 90-4/30; RSC 7.ecoli
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