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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2994801, member: 74834&quot;]Today some very nice coins came in, including my first Lucius Verus (161-169), or so I thought. According to the seller, this is an AE of the city of Amphipolis in Macedonia, the reverse showing Artemis Tauropolis standing left, holding long torch and branch. &quot;SNG ANS 193 var. (torch and branch in other hand)&quot;. What fascinated me, was the youthful portrait of the emperor, not with the abundant curls and the forked beard you usually see on Lucius Verus - only a small mustache and (this type of beard I had to look up) a <i>soul patch</i>. Could it be a Caesar coin? But I didn&#039;t find Lucius Verus figuring as caesar anywhere. However, an unadorned head with the text ΚΑΙCΑΡ ΟΥΗΡΟC (&#039;Kaisar Oueros&#039;) could hardly mean anything else than &#039;Verus Caesar&#039;. </p><p>I won the coin (it was not expensive) and now I looked it up in my old Sear. There I found the solution: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]739750[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So it was Marcus Aurelius as caesar after all. His full name, starting from 139, was Marcus Aelius Aurelius Verus Caesar. His forefathers carried Verus as one their family names. Marcus being born in&nbsp; 121, this coin is from the 140s or 150s. </p><p><br /></p><p>AE Marcus Aurelius Caesar, Amphipolis (Macedon). 139-161. Obv. ΚΑΙCΑΡΟΥΗΡΟC. Bare head right. Rev. ΑΜΦΙΠΟΛEΙΤΩΝ. Artemis Tauropolis standing left, holding long torch and branch. 17 mm, 3.83 gr. Sear 1542. Yellow color.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]739751[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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