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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2136440, member: 57495&quot;]<b><span style="color: #ff0000">HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARCUS AURELIUS!!</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Born: 26 April 121 AD</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Reigned : 8 March 161 - 17 March 180 AD</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Five Good Emperors who ruled the Roman Empire in the 2nd century AD.&nbsp; Emperor Hadrian took a shine to the serious young boy, nicknaming him Verissimus (&#039;the truthful&#039;), and when he was ailing, had his heir Antoninus Pius adopt Aurelius as his own son, with the intention that he should eventually rule the empire.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Celebrated even during his lifetime as a philosopher-king, the image of Aurelius as a p̶o̶n̶t̶i̶f̶i̶c̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶w̶h̶a̶r̶d̶ noble-minded intellectual is the one that most strongly persists today.&nbsp; His literary legacy, <i>Meditations</i>, is in my humble opinion, the most brilliant philosophical treatise ever written on just getting on with your life without being an a*hole (or giving a whit about those who are).&nbsp; It&#039;s apparently Bill Clinton&#039;s favorite book.&nbsp; Here&#039;s one of my favorite quotes from it :</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<i><b>The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.</b></i>&quot;</p><p>- Marcus Aurelius </p><p><br /></p><p>As a bonus, here&#039;s another quote from a fellow Stoic thinker and Clinton favorite.&nbsp; It could easily have come from Aurelius himself, and I think he would have appreciated it. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b><i>The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit.</i></b>&quot;</p><p>- Kinky Friedman</p><p><br /></p><p>Uhm, now that I look at it, maybe that second quote isn&#039;t wholly appropriate given that this is a coin forum <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; To recity that, here are my favorite Marcus Aurelius coins... please post yours!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>MARCUS AURELIUS</b>, AE As, RIC 1192.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]407597[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>MARCUS AURELIUS</b>, AR Denarius, RIC 363. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]407596[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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