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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike Margolis, post: 3255775, member: 88401&quot;][ATTACH=full]855349[/ATTACH]</p><p>Marcus Aurelius 161-180 A.D. Sestertius Rome Mint About Fine AE Sestertius 21.70g. 31mm. Struck under Commodus c. 180-182 A.D. Rome Mint</p><p>Bare head, r.</p><p>DIVVS M ANTONINVS PIVS</p><p>Eagle flying r., bearing aloft Marcus Aurelius holding sceptre; In ex.: S C</p><p>[C]ON<strike>ECR[ATIO]</strike></p><p><strike>RIC III 660</strike></p><p><strike>Glossy black patina.</strike></p><p><strike>Minor pit on neck.</strike></p><p><strike><span style="color: rgb(0, 179, 0)">Marcus&#039; death in 180 is seen as an end to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana" rel="nofollow">Pax Romana</a>, an age of relative peace and stability for the Empire. He was known as the Philosopher being schooled in the Greek language/letters and philosophy.</span></strike></p><p><strike><span style="color: rgb(0, 179, 0)">Marcus acquired the reputation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king" rel="nofollow">philosopher king</a> within his lifetime, and the title would remain his after death; both Dio and the biographer call him &quot;the philosopher&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-305" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-305" rel="nofollow">[289]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-306" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-306" rel="nofollow">[290]</a> Christians such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr" rel="nofollow">Justin Martyr</a>, Athenagoras, and Melito also gave him the title.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-307" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-307" rel="nofollow">[291]</a> The last named went so far as to call him &quot;more philanthropic and philosophic&quot; than Antoninus and Hadrian, and set him against the persecuting emperors Domitian and Nero to make the contrast bolder.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-308" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-308" rel="nofollow">[292]</a> &quot;Alone of the emperors,&quot; wrote the historian Herodian, &quot;he gave proof of his learning not by mere words or knowledge of philosophical doctrines but by his blameless character and temperate way of life.&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-309" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-309" rel="nofollow">[293]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_King" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_King" rel="nofollow">Iain King</a> concludes that Marcus&#039; legacy is tragic, because the emperor&#039;s &quot;Stoic philosophy—which is about self-restraint, duty, and respect for others—was so abjectly abandoned by the imperial line he anointed on his death&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-310" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#cite_note-310" rel="nofollow">[294]</a>-Wiki</span></strike></p><p><strike>[ATTACH=full]855368[/ATTACH]</strike></p><p><strike><br /></strike></p><p><strike>Faustina II</strike></p><p><strike>Cilicia, Diocaesarea 147-175 AD</strike></p><p><strike>Obverse: ANNIA FAVCTEINA CEBACTH, draped bust right</strike></p><p><strike>Reverse: ADRIANWN DIOKECAPEWN, winged thunderbolt</strike></p><p><strike>BMC: 5 Scarce</strike></p><p><strike>Size: 26mm, 7.78g </strike></p><p><span style="color: #59b300">Faustina accompanied her husband on various military campaigns and enjoyed the love and reverence of Roman soldiers. Aurelius gave her the title of <i>Mater Castrorum</i> or ‘Mother of the Camp’. She attempted to make her home out of an army camp. Between 170–175, she was in the north, and in 175, she accompanied Aurelius to the east.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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