50th Anniversary

Today marks my wife's and my 50th wedding anniversary. It was a snowy March 23, 1968 when we said our nuptials. I suppose one might say we have beaten the odds to have lasted this long.

In celebration of this momentous occasion, here are events in the Roman Empire that transpired in 50 AD:


- Cologne is raised to the status of a city.
- Romans learn the use of soap from the Gauls.
- Utrecht is founded, and a Roman fortification (castellum) is constructed at the Rhine border in the present-day Netherlands.
- Claudius adopts Nero.
- In Judea a Roman soldier seizes and burns a Torah-scroll. Procurator Cumanus has the culprit beheaded, calming down the Jews and delaying for two decades the outbreak of their revolt.[1]
- In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula begins his campaign against the recalcitrant Silures of south Wales, who are led by the former Catuvellaunian prince Caratacus. London (Londinium), Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum), Tripontium (near modern Rugby) and the fort of Manduessedum (near modern Atherstone) are founded (approximate date).
- Roman emperor Claudius appoints Agrippa II governor of Chalcis.
- Romans build a wooden bridge across the Thames in the London area.

Just so this is about coins:

NERO
AR Drachm
OBVERSE: NERO CLAVD DIVI CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GERM, laureate head of Nero right.
REVERSE: DIVOS CLAVD AVGVST GERMANIC PATER AVG, Claudius' laureate head right
Struck at Caesarea, Cappodocia, 63/4AD
3.6g, 17mm
RIC 621, RSC 3, RPC 3648

 

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Happy Anniversary Bing.

 

Wow 50 years congrats. Happy anniversary!

 

Congrats! That's a real milestone.

 

Congratulations to you and your wife on the big Five-Ohh, Bing!

 

Congrats to you @Bing and even more so to your wife
That's an acomplishment !

Q

 

congrats on your anniversary!

 

congrats on your anniversary!

 

Isn't the 50th anniversary celebrated with gold?.... Wink-wink-nudge-nudge

 

Congrats, Bing! I hope you and the wife enjoy the day and have many happy years ahead together. 50 years is mighty impressive and a thing to celebrate.... come to think of it, that's longer than the reigns of the all the ~20 emperors of the Crisis of the 3rd Century put together!

 

Not many people can say that today! congrats bing.

 

WOW, congratulations @Bing on the 50 years of bliss! That is fantastic!

Nice Nero Drachm... you sure you want to post HIM as an Anniversary Coin?

Here is a coin of his mother... not the best looking, but knocks out a hole-filler for my Roman Ruler Placeholder sub-focus collection.


RI Agrippina II 50-59 CE AE Diobol 22mm 8.7g Alexandria Egypt Bust of Euthenia w Corn in Hair RPC 5188
Mommy of Nero...

 

Happy anniversary Bing!

 

Yeah, I hear ya. I would have liked to post a new MA legionary denarius, but, alas, not yet. The reason for the Nero coin was that in 50 AD he was adopted by Claudius.

 

Congratulations Bing!!! I hope you're able to celebrate like an Augustus and Augusta (early ones, not late usurpers).

 

Happy Anniversary Bing!

 

Happy anniversary!

 

Happy Anniversary - that's wonderful!

 

Congrats on your 50th and Happy Anniversary to both of you.

 

Congratulations to you and your wife!

That is a big milestone!

I am more likely to be celebrating my 50th wedding to 50 different women than to last 50 years with the same one.

Ok, just kidding, Mrs Theodosius is the perfect partner for me, ie she is able to put up with me.