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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7618134, member: 110350&quot;]Very nice coins, [USER=101013]@Limes[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two recent acquisitions, which have nothing in common except that both portray Roman emperors who lived to be over 70. Not a common outcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rhoemetalces and Augustus, AE 22 mm., 11 BCE-12 AD, Thrace. Obv. Jugate heads of King Rhoemetalces and his queen Pythodoris right, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΡΟΙΜΗΤΑΛΚΟΥ / Rev. bare head of Augustus right, ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. I&nbsp; 1711 (1992); RPC I Online at&nbsp; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1711" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1711" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1711</a> ; Sear <i>GIC </i>Thrace 5396 [D. Sear, <i>Greek Imperial Coins and their Values </i>(Seaby 1982)]. 22 mm., 8.93 g., 7 h. Ex. London Ancient Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[The photo has the Augustus side to the left, but all the authorities I looked at agree that that&#039;s actually the reverse side.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311154[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Tacitus, silvered billon Antoninianus, Lugdunum [Lyons] Mint, First Officina, 275-276 AD. Obv. Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust ight, IMP C L TACITVS AVG / Rev. Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus upright in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand, TEMPORVM FELICITAS, A [First Officina] in left field, star [*] in right field. RIC V-1 65, Sear RCV III 11817 (ill.), Cohen 144. 23 mm., 3.4 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311155[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Tacitus, of course, was the short-reigned emperor (what else is new for that century?) who claimed to be descended from the historian Tacitus, and was supposedly an aged Senator. However, Sear states (see Sear RCV III at p. 445) that&nbsp; his advanced age, his Senatorial status, and not only the fact but even the claim of descent from the historian, may all be later fictions, and that he may simply have been yet another military emperor from the Balkans. His portrait certainly doesn&#039;t look elderly, although by itself that proves nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please follow up on Limes&#039;s suggestion on what to post. And/or post more coins of Tacitus or Augustus -- or Rhoemetalces -- or of other emperors who lived to be over 70![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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