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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2159366, member: 57495&quot;]I&#039;ve been wanting an imperial issue of Lucius Verus for awhile, and after [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] mentioned the story (from <i>Historia Augusta</i>) about the emperor smashing cups in cookshops by throwing large coins at them, specifically a sestertius of his.&nbsp; As Doug pointed out, there&#039;s always the possibility the coin would be one of those that the emperor had used to make a nuisance of himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Naturally, anything you might <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Lucius_Verus*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Lucius_Verus*.html" rel="nofollow">read </a>in HA is of questionable veracity, but it&#039;s still an amusing story, and now I&#039;ve got a nice coin to go with it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Personally, though, I think it more likely Verus would have used the sestertii of his stick-in-the-mud colleague Marcus Aurelius as his missiles of choice instead. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post your Lucius Verus coins! Especially if they look like they may have been used to break a cup.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]415568[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>LUCIUS VERUS</b></p><p>AE Sestertius</p><p>24.35g, 31.8mm</p><p>Rome mint, AD 164</p><p>RIC 1379</p><p>O: L AVREL VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS, Laureate and cuirassed bust right. </p><p>R: TR P IIII IMP II COS II, Mars advancing right, holding trophy and transverse spear; S C across fields.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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