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<p>[QUOTE="expat, post: 24732678, member: 111067"]Received this yesterday. Bought it for two reasons, I didn´t have a Marcus Aurelius in my collection, and it has a reverse I had never seen before.</p><p>Please post your versions or anything relevant.</p><p>Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar. AE As. 151-152 AD. Struck under Antoninus Pius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: AVRELIVS CAESAR ANTONINI AVG PII FIL, bare head right.</p><p>Rev: TR POT VI COS II. VIR-TVS and S-C across fields. Virtus standing</p><p>left, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium (A parazonium is a long triangular dagger, wide at the hilt end and coming to a point. In Roman mythology, it is frequently carried by Virtus, particularly in early representations. It is also sometimes carried by Mars, Roma, or the emperor, giving them the aura of courage).</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 1307; Cohen 1013.13,0 g - 26,5 mm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582164[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="expat, post: 24732678, member: 111067"]Received this yesterday. Bought it for two reasons, I didn´t have a Marcus Aurelius in my collection, and it has a reverse I had never seen before. Please post your versions or anything relevant. Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar. AE As. 151-152 AD. Struck under Antoninus Pius. Obv: AVRELIVS CAESAR ANTONINI AVG PII FIL, bare head right. Rev: TR POT VI COS II. VIR-TVS and S-C across fields. Virtus standing left, foot on helmet, holding spear and parazonium (A parazonium is a long triangular dagger, wide at the hilt end and coming to a point. In Roman mythology, it is frequently carried by Virtus, particularly in early representations. It is also sometimes carried by Mars, Roma, or the emperor, giving them the aura of courage). RIC 1307; Cohen 1013.13,0 g - 26,5 mm [ATTACH=full]1582164[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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