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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 4663392, member: 15588&quot;]Being a fan of both ancient Stoicism and ancient coins, it seemed inevitable that I would eventually have to pick up a coin from the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161 - 180), author of <i>Meditations</i>. So I found the below bare headed denarius example on the site that people usually recommend for buying ancients and the rest is quite a bit of history.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1150261[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1150262[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The closest attribution I could find for this coin matches <i>almost</i> perfectly, except it shows &quot;XVI&quot; for the &quot;XVII&quot; on the reverse. So, perhaps going out on a limb, I updated that attribution to match the one above. Is this close enough? Or does anyone have other sources to try?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Marcus Aurelius. AR Denarius. Struck 161/2 AD. M ANTONINVS AVG, bare head right / CONCORD AVG TR P XVII, COS III in exergue, Concordia seated left, holding patera, resting left elbow on statuette of Spes set on base. 18mm 3.4gm</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This attribution came from row &quot;RIC 33&quot; on the <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com" rel="nofollow">www.wildwinds.com</a> site. I took the diameter and weight from the coin myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>And why not conclude with some words from the Emperor himself, from <i>Meditations</i>:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Book IV</i></p><p>&quot;You have subsisted as a part of the Whole. You will vanish into that which gave you birth: or rather you will be changed, taken up into the generative principle of the universe.&quot; </p><p>&quot;Change: nothing inherently bad in the process, nothing inherently good in the result.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Book V</i></p><p>&quot;The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.&quot; </p><p>&quot;What does not benefit the hive does not benefit the bee either.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Book VII</i></p><p>&quot;How many who once rose to fame are now consigned to oblivion: and how many who sang their fame are long disappeared.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Take care that you never treat the misanthropic as they treat mankind.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Book VIII</i></p><p>&quot;He who fears death fears either unconsciousness or another sort of consciousness. Now if you will no longer be conscious you will not be conscious either of anything bad. If you are to take on a different consciousness, you will be a different being and life will not cease.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Men are born for the sake of each other. So either teach or tolerate.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Book IX</i></p><p>&quot;You should leave another&#039;s wrong where it lies.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Book X</i></p><p>&quot;No more roundabout discussion of what makes a good man. Be one!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>*By the way, this brings my count of ancients up to five:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-fourth-ancient.281282/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-fourth-ancient.281282/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-fourth-ancient.281282/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-third-ancient.280757/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-third-ancient.280757/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-third-ancient.280757/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-other-ancient.279437/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-other-ancient.279437/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-other-ancient.279437/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/your-first-ancient.279020/page-2#post-2429203" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/your-first-ancient.279020/page-2#post-2429203">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/your-first-ancient.279020/page-2#post-2429203</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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