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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3500201, member: 96898&quot;]Wonderful coins everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my favorite Marcus Aurelius as Caesar – in my eyes one of the most dramatic and beautiful Roman portraits in my collection:</p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]927395[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Marcus Aurelius (as Caesar), Roman Empire, denarius, 140–144 AD, Rome mint. Obv: AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS; head of Marcus Aurelius, bare, r. Rev: IVVENTAS, Iuventas (youth) standing l., dropping incense in candelabrum and holding patera. 17.5mm, 3.16g. Ref: RIC III Antoninus Pius 423a. Ex CNG.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is a later, less spectacular sestertius of Marcus Aurelius as Augustus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]927396[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Marcus Aurelius, Roman Empire, sestertius, 171–172 AD, Rome mint. Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG TR [P XXVI], bus of Marcus Aurelius, draped and laureate, r. Rev: [IMP&nbsp; VI] COS III, Roma seated l. on pile of armor, leaning on shield, holding sceptre; in fields flanking, SC. 30mm, 26.95g. Ref: RIC III Marcus Aurelius, 1037.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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