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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4599283, member: 110350&quot;]Last week, I started a thread about Constantine I&#039;s wife Fausta, and the mystery of which two children (Constantine II &amp; Constantius II, or Constantius II &amp; Constans) she&#039;s holding on the reverse of many of her coins issued in the last few years of her life. See <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-more-members-of-constantine-is-family-plus-which-of-faustas-sons-are-shown-on-her-coins.362265/#post-4589038" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-more-members-of-constantine-is-family-plus-which-of-faustas-sons-are-shown-on-her-coins.362265/#post-4589038">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-more-members-of-constantine-is-family-plus-which-of-faustas-sons-are-shown-on-her-coins.362265/#post-4589038</a></p><p><br /></p><p>For this coin, there&#039;s apparently no mystery:</p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina II [Junior] (wife of Marcus Aurelius &amp; daughter of Antoninus Pius), AR Denarius, Rome Mint, 161 AD. Obv. Draped bust right, hair in chignon behind, wearing stephane, FAVSTINA AVGVSTA / Rev. Two infant boys seated on draped throne (pulvinar), right arms raised towards each other, right hands clasped together [<i>compass dot between the boys</i>], SAECVLI FELICIT. RIC III [Marcus Aurelius] 712, RSC II 191 [<i>variety without stars above boys’ heads</i>], Sear RCV II 5260 (ill.). 17.5 mm., 3.39 g., 12h. [<i>The two infant boys are Faustina’s and Marcus&#039;s twin sons b. 31 Aug 161 AD: Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus (the older twin, d. 165 AD) and Commodus.</i>]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139102[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason we know that Antoninus was the older twin is that he was the one named after his maternal grandfather Antoninus Pius, who had died earlier that year.&nbsp; One wonders how things would have been different had he lived to adulthood, and Commodus had never ascended to the throne.</p><p><br /></p><p>Am I correct that the circular raised dot in the center is simply a compass dot, rather than some sort of ball the children are playing with -- which was my first thought on seeing the coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that there are other coins showing Faustina II with various of her children, and you&#039;re welcome to post them here if you want to, but are there other empresses (besides Fausta) depicted on coins with their young children?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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