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Message:: [QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 24597803, member: 88829"]Three women, four marriages: He started with Julia Paula, who looks like a determined Severide woman in this representation: [ATTACH=full]1562482[/ATTACH] But she didn't really suit his fancy.  He wanted a different kind of challenge which was supposed to be off limits.  He wanted a Vestal Virgin who could match his self proclaimed holiness.  His preference was for Aquilia Severa: [ATTACH=full]1562483[/ATTACH] That didn't go over so well with the general public, the senate, the military establishment, or the rest of the imperial house.  They forced him to put her aside for a woman of social prominence and acceptability from a great family.  He was called upon to marry Annia Faustina: [ATTACH=full]1562484[/ATTACH]He did as he was told, but at the age of eighteen he was determined to have things the way HE wanted them, and no one was going to tell him otherwise.  So he went back to the one woman HE had chosen, the erstwhile vestal virgin Aquilea Severa: [ATTACH=full]1562485[/ATTACH] That of course proved that he was irrascible and unwilling to live by good Roman social standards.  So at 18 the Roman guard dispensed with that member of the Severide line and brought up the man who would finish the line. But you are asked to show us a coin of the wife of the one who STARTED the line, Septimius Severus.  He married what's-her-name from the East.[/QUOTE]