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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8324571, member: 110350&quot;]Marcus Aurelius Caesar (under Antoninus Pius) AR Denarius, 145-146 AD, Rome Mint. Obv: Bare head right, clean-shaven, AVRELIVS CAE-SAVG PII F / Rev: Honos standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae, COS II. RIC III Antoninus Pius 429a, RSC II Marcus Aurelius 110 (p. 202), BMCRE IV Antoninus Pius 594 (p. 85), ERIC II 301, Sear RCV (1981 ed.) 1279; A. Pangerl, &quot;Vier Jahrzente Portraits des Marcus Aurelius auf römischen Reichsmünzen,&quot; <i>500 Years of Roman Coin Portraits</i> (2d ed. 2017), pp. 318-333 at p. 324 Tabelle 1 (No. 3.10) &amp; p. 326 (No. 10) [dated to 145-146 AD and classified at p. 439 as “Type 3: long head shape of adolescent boy; beginning moustache, increasing but discrete side burns”] (noting at p. 324 that &quot;RIC gibt keinen Barttyp an&quot;).&nbsp; 18.2 mm, 3.3 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474979[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is going to be more difficult than it seems: another Roman coin -- whether Republican, Imperial, or Provincial -- depicting a male personification. (Hint: there aren&#039;t many of them; the overwhelming majority of personifications are female.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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