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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4827494, member: 75937&quot;]*Props to [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER], who had a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/happy-birthday-commodus.267995/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/happy-birthday-commodus.267995/">similar thread</a> five years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>On this day, 31 August, AD 161, Faustina II gave birth to twin boys, Lucius Aurelius Commodus and Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus. </p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]wxIynr8Ulrw[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>The event was commemorated on these coins of Faustina II. The first type depicts the baby boys seated on a <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40212085" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40212085" rel="nofollow"><i>pulvinar</i></a>, a cushioned couch kept in readiness so if any god should visit, s/he will have a place to sit:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-saecvli-felicit-denarius-ric-711-jpg.1083940/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina Junior, Augusta AD 147-176.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.22 g, 17.0 mm, 12:00.</p><p>Rome, AD 161.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: SAECVLI FELICIT, Throne, upon which are seated two infant boys, Commodus and Antoninus.</p><p>Refs: RIC 711; BMCRE 136; Cohen 191; RCV 5260 var. (no diadem); CRE 221; Dinsdale 005590.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-saecvli-felicit-sestertius-jpg.770728/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina II, AD 147-175.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 24.65 g, 30.4 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: SAECVLI FELICIT SC, draped throne on which there are two infant boys with stars above their heads.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1665; BMCRE 936; Cohen 193; RCV 5282; MIR 27.</p><p><br /></p><p>A second type features all six of Faustina&#039;s children who were alive in AD 161: Faustina III, Lucilla, Fadilla and Cornificia standing at her feet and the twins Commodus and Antoninus in her arms!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-tempor-felic-s-c-sestertius-jpg.1139202/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina Jr, Augusta 147-176.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 23.99 g, 31.7 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: TEMPOR FELIC SC, Faustina standing left, holding two children, four more at her feet.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1673; Cohen 222; RCV 5284 var. (no stephane).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-jr-tempor-felic-s-c-dupondius-jpg.1139203/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina Jr, Augusta 147-176.</p><p>Roman orichalcum dupondius, 11.55 g, 28.2 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 161.</p><p>Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: TEMPOR FELIC SC, Faustina standing left, holding two children, four more at her feet.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1675; Cohen 223; BMCRE 996; RCV 5304 var. (no stephane).</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus&#039; twin died before the age of four or five, for in AD 166, it was a younger brother, Marcus Annius Verus (born toward the end of 162), who became Caesar with Commodus. M. Annius Verus was still alive at the time of Lucilla&#039;s marriage to Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus Quintianus in AD 168 or 169.</p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus was ... well ... <i>not exactly</i> on Gibbon&#039;s list of &quot;good emperors.&quot; He was assassinated on 31 December, 192. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1167755[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve seen a coin from his infancy. Here&#039;s a coin from the last year of his life:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/commodus-libertas-sestertius-jpg.1015599/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Commodus, AD 177-192.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 22.51 g, 29.2 mm, 1 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 192.</p><p>Obv: L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL, laureate bust of Commodus, right, with slight drapery on left shoulder.</p><p>Rev: LIB AVG P M TR P XVII COS VII P P, Libertas standing facing, head left, holding pileus in right hand and vindicta in left hand; S C l. and r., low in field; star, mid right, in field.</p><p>Refs: RIC 619b; BMCRE 692 var. (bust); Cohen 290; RCV 5764; ERIC II 573 var. (bust).</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Post your coins of Commodus or anything you feel is relevant!</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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