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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3719435, member: 96898&quot;]Nice coin, [USER=100136]@thejewk[/USER] ! That&#039;s a fine portrait, and the coin has, at least in my eyes, a very attractive contrasting patina. Certainly a worthy addition to your collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a sestertius struck shortly after the succesful Roman campaign against the Marcomanni and their allies in 171 AD, due to which Marcus Aurelius assumed the title Germanicus. Roma sits on the weapons captured from the Germanic tribes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]996958[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Marcus Aurelius, Roman Empire, sestertius, 171–172 AD, Rome mint. Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG TR [P XXVI], bust 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></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">In 176 AD, Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus celebrated a joint triumph for the German victories in the first Marcomannic War. Commodus assumed the titles Sarmaticus and Germanicus. Some of the coins struck to commemorate this short-lived victory show a pile of captured, distinctly Germanic arms:</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]996962[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Commodus, Roman Empire, sestertius, 177 AD, Rome mint. Obv: IMP L AVREL COMMODVS AVG [GERM] SARM; laureate and draped bust of Commodus r. Rev: T[R P] II COS [P]P; pile of Germanic arms (round and oblong shields, spears, war trumpets, scale armor, bows and standards?); in fields, S-C; in exergue, DE GERMANIS. 31mm, 21.84g. Ref: RIC III Marcus Aurelius 1570. Ex CNG, e-auction 142, lot 134; ex CNG, e-auction 447, lot 471. Smoothed.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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