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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4578823, member: 75937&quot;]Then there was Marcus Aurelius ...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/marcus-aurelius-restitvtor-italiae-sestertius-jpg.1056053/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 21.36 g, 29.5 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 173.</p><p>Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVII, head of Marcus Aurelius, laureate, right.</p><p>Rev: RESTITVTORI ITALIAE IMP VI COS III, Marcus Aurelius, in military dress, standing left, holding vertical spear in left hand and clasping right hands with Italia kneeling right before him, holding globe in left hand; SC in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1077; BMCRE 1449-1450; Cohen 538; RCV 4997; MIR 259.</p><p><br /></p><p>... who had such high hopes for his son, Commodus:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/commodus-libertas-sestertius-jpg.1015599/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Commodus, AD 177-192.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 22.51 g, 29.2 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 192.</p><p>Obv: L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL, laureate bust of Commodus, right, with slight drapery on left shoulder.</p><p>Rev: LIB AVG P M TR P XVII COS VII P P, Libertas standing facing, head left, holding pileus in right hand and vindicta in left hand; S C l. and r., low in field; star, mid right, in field.</p><p>Refs: RIC 619b; BMCRE 692 var. (bust); Cohen 290; Sear 5764; ERIC II 573 var. (bust).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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