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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Adoptive Emperors| > |Aelius| > RS89743
Aelius, Caesar, July or August 136 - 1 January 138 A.D., Ancient Counterfeit
|Aelius|, |Aelius,| |Caesar,| |July| |or| |August| |136| |-| |1| |January| |138| |A.D.,| |Ancient| |Counterfeit|, "Some believe that he first became a favorite of Hadrian when he was on Hadrian's trip up the Nile in 130, but when the childless Hadrian named him as his adoptive heir on August 10, 136, the Roman world was nevertheless stunned. Upon his adoption Lucius Ceionius Commodus was renamed Lucius Aelius Caesar (Aelius being Hadrian's family name). Rumors began that Aelius was chosen because he had became a second Antinous (Hadrian's boy-lover who had drowned on the Nile trip). When Hadrian's brother-in-law Servianus, who was now a nonagenarian, protested that perhaps his grandson Pedanius Fuscus Salinator would have been a better choice, the sick Emperor forced both of their suicides. There seemed to be nothing outstanding about Aelius and indeed his libertine ways contrasted sharply with the disciplined life of Hadrian." - Moneta Historical Reference
RS89743. Fouree silver plated denarius, RIC II Hadrian 436 (S), BMCRE III Hadrian 983, Hunter II 7, RSC II 1, SRCV II -, F, toned, well centered, some legend weak, plating breaks on obverse, small edge cracks, unofficial counterfeiter's mint, weight 3.050g, maximum diameter 17.7mm, die axis 180o, 137 A.D.; obverse L AELIVS CAESAR, bare head right; reverse TR POT COS II, Concordia enthroned left, patera in right hand, resting left elbow on cornucopia, CONCORD in exergue; SOLD




  







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