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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7998292, member: 115909&quot;]Thanks! Lol that’s actually my intention but I can’t think of any other members of the immediate family of Marcus Aurelius.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have Lucilla’s first husband Lucius Verus. I also have Antoninus Pius already as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Faustina the Younger denarius has both Commodus &amp; his elder brother Marcus Antoninus on the reverse (as babies).</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately for Rome Marcus Antoninus died as a child and Commodus succeeded him as heir to the Emperorship.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s one of those “what if” situations. What IF Marcus Antoninus had survived? He would have become Emperor instead of Commodus and if he was anything like his father Marcus Aurelius perhaps Rome would’ve continued to shine as an Empire of gold instead of (as Cassius Dio writes) devolved into an Empire of “iron and rust”.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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