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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8283846, member: 99456&quot;]Well, let&#039;s go with &quot;Lucius Septimius <b><font size="6"><span style="color: #006633">B</span></font></b>assianus&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;The two sons left by Septimius Severus, Geta and Bassianus, both received the surname Antoninus, one from the army, the other from his father, but Geta was declared a public enemy, while Bassianus got the empire.&quot;</i></p><p><i>-Historia Augusta, <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/historia_augusta/caracalla*.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/historia_augusta/caracalla*.html" rel="nofollow">The Life of Antoninus Caracalla, 1.1</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463312[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Bassianus (Caracalla)</b>, AR Denarius, Rome, AD 216</p><p><b>Obv: </b> ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate head to right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> P M TR P XVIIII COS IIII P P, Jupiter seated to left, holding Victory and sceptre, eagle at feet</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC IV 277c</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Next up:</b> a Roman Emperor whose name begins with &quot;<font size="6"><span style="color: #006633"><b>C</b></span></font>&quot;. Let&#039;s see how far in the alphabet we can get![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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