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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7790863, member: 89514&quot;]The continuation of our discussion as a private conversation, that [USER=106319]@Romancollector[/USER] has agreed might be of interest to other Coin Talk participants too:</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know how strong the evidence is for your assertion that the deaths of children are the reason for him doing that. I would like to know more about why you feel that&#039;s the most likely reason he didn&#039;t advance his tribunician year and it wasn&#039;t for some other, perhaps unknown, reason. It&#039;s an interesting notion, but neither Ameling nor Levick discuss this and one would imagine they would have taken this into account it had been cited by the primary sources. Birley, who appears to be the only historian to accept the notion that Lucilla was the fourth of her children and not the second, doesn&#039;t mention that, either. I really wish we had better ancient sources for the Antonine period so we could answer even simple questions such as how many children she had with more certainty. Not being a professional historian (I am a former professor of biblical Greek who left the field and became a physician), I can only rely on what appears to be the consensus of scholarly opinion as to the chronology surrounding her children.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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