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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 4120751, member: 87200&quot;]I received the five coins that I won in the Frank Robinson auction in the mail today. I am quite pleased with all of them. This one stood out as the most dramatic so I am sharing it first, with the emperor in charge of the re-conquest of Armenia since it had been lost to the Parthians.</p><p><br /></p><p>The generals Fronto and Avidius Cassius did most of the fighting, but Lucius&#039; received the glory on his coins with the title ARMENIACVS on the obverse of his issues. The victory was probably the high point in the reign of Verus, since he was re-assigned to the Danube frontier in the last two years of his reign where he died, ostensibly of the plague which the Roman armies had carried with them back from their journey to the East.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Lucius Verus, 161-169 A.D.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Type: AE As, 25.5 mm 12.1 grams, R1 according to ACSearch</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: L VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS, Bare-Headed Bust Facing Right</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: TRP IIII IMP II COS III, Emperor on Horseback Charging right holding spear, riding down foe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: TBD, not in Wildwinds - edit:&nbsp; RIC 1404</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1068253[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1068254[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please attach any interesting coins of Verus that you may have...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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