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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 7963912, member: 91461"]I would certainly LOVE to have a coin of this type as well... led alone in the cherry condition yours is in!</p><p>As always, lovely coins Donna<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie16" alt=":artist:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>MA is probably in everyone's top ten list. The guy was handsome, brilliant, always planning and ruled during some of the very best times in all of human existence<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I just won this denarius of him last weekend:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380776[/ATTACH]</p><p>MARCUS AURELIUS, as Caesar. 139-161 AD. AR Denarius (16mm - 3.35 g). Rome mint. Struck 157/8 AD. AVRELIVS CAES AN-TON AVG PII F, bare head right / TR POT XII COS II, Felicitas standing facing, head turned left, holding caduceus in right hand, scepter in left, left elbow resting on short column. RIC III 475a (Pius); BMCRE 920 (Pius); RSC 727. </p><p>And a few other favorites...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380779[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380780[/ATTACH]</p><p>Marcus Aurelius</p><p>AE Sestertius, Rome, A.D. 153/4, 31 mm, 20,01 g, as Caesar under Antoninus Pius, bare-headed, draped bust right, with light beard, AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG P[II FIL], rev. TR POT [VIII] COS II, S-C, Minerva standing half right, holding reversed spear and owl (BMC 1955)</p><p>Jan 2021 Elkowicz</p><p><br /></p><p>And better throw in "Papa" Pius for good emperors, I mean good measure<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380781[/ATTACH]</p><p>Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161). AR denarius (18mm, 12h). NGC XF, light scratches. Rome, AD 158/9. ANTONINVS AVG-PIVS P P TR P XXII, laureate head of Antoninus right / VOTA SOL-DEC II-COS IIII, emperor, togate, standing facing, veiled head left, sacrificing from patera in right hand over altar at left, globe at feet, bucranium at base left of altar. RIC III 291b. Purchased from Heritage Auction June 2021 HID09801242017[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 7963912, member: 91461"]I would certainly LOVE to have a coin of this type as well... led alone in the cherry condition yours is in! As always, lovely coins Donna:artist::cigar: MA is probably in everyone's top ten list. The guy was handsome, brilliant, always planning and ruled during some of the very best times in all of human existence:singing: I just won this denarius of him last weekend: [ATTACH=full]1380776[/ATTACH] MARCUS AURELIUS, as Caesar. 139-161 AD. AR Denarius (16mm - 3.35 g). Rome mint. Struck 157/8 AD. AVRELIVS CAES AN-TON AVG PII F, bare head right / TR POT XII COS II, Felicitas standing facing, head turned left, holding caduceus in right hand, scepter in left, left elbow resting on short column. RIC III 475a (Pius); BMCRE 920 (Pius); RSC 727. And a few other favorites... [ATTACH=full]1380779[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1380780[/ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius AE Sestertius, Rome, A.D. 153/4, 31 mm, 20,01 g, as Caesar under Antoninus Pius, bare-headed, draped bust right, with light beard, AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG P[II FIL], rev. TR POT [VIII] COS II, S-C, Minerva standing half right, holding reversed spear and owl (BMC 1955) Jan 2021 Elkowicz And better throw in "Papa" Pius for good emperors, I mean good measure;) [ATTACH=full]1380781[/ATTACH] Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161). AR denarius (18mm, 12h). NGC XF, light scratches. Rome, AD 158/9. ANTONINVS AVG-PIVS P P TR P XXII, laureate head of Antoninus right / VOTA SOL-DEC II-COS IIII, emperor, togate, standing facing, veiled head left, sacrificing from patera in right hand over altar at left, globe at feet, bucranium at base left of altar. RIC III 291b. Purchased from Heritage Auction June 2021 HID09801242017[/QUOTE]
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