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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7783364, member: 89514&quot;][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>The PVDICITIA sestertius with the woman holding a naked male baby on her lap, while a draped female child stands before her: surely this must commemorate the birth of Faustina&#039;s second child, so a boy, the same event commemorated by the TEMPORVM FELICITAS coins of Antoninus as TR P XII, showing crossed cornucopias bearing the busts of two children, apparently a boy and an older girl? If so that boy will have been born, and Faustina&#039;s PVDICITIA sestertius with two children will have been struck, during Antoninus&#039; twelfth tribunician year, c. March 149-March 150 on my reckoning. </p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think of my discovery, presented earlier on Coin Talk, that Marcus Aurelius refused to advance his tribunician number between sometime in the course of Antoninus&#039; TR P XII and sometime in the course of Antoninus&#039; TR P XIIII, a gap which seems very likely to indicate a period when both of Marcus and Faustina&#039;s earliest children had died, since we know that the birth of his first daughter on 30 November 147 was the occasion of Marcus&#039; assumption of the tribunician power? Marcus only began numbering his TR P again in c. March 151, indicating that the childless period was over, clearly because of the birth of Lucilla, whose birthday we know was 7 March. This reconstruction, as you can see, completely revises the traditional account of Faustina&#039;s childbirths between the initial birth on 30 November 147 and the apparent birth of Lucilla on 7 March 151.</p><p><br /></p><p>You received your copy of Beckmann&#039;s new Faustina book about two months ago; but I am still waiting for mine, despite the projected release date of 30 June! One minor point I will be interested to check: whether Beckmann makes any mention of my revised chronology for the births of 148-151, a matter I think I discussed with him when he visited Chicago about ten years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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