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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3080919, member: 75937&quot;]As promised, here are some coins celebrating the fabulous fecundity of Faustina II. She is thought to have had 12 or 13 children:</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a sestertius issued by her dad, Antoninus Pius, in honor of Faustina giving birth to a baby boy, who might have been the heir to the throne had he not died in childhood. It bears the reverse inscription TEMPORVM FELICITAS, &quot;the happiness of the times,&quot; and features two of Faustina&#039;s children:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]775835[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Over time, she had more children, as depicted on the reverse types celebrating FECVNDITAS, the Roman personification of fertility, and TEMPOR FELIC, &quot;the happiness of the times,&quot; depicting Fecunditas surrounded by and/or holding as many as five children.[ATTACH=full]775836[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]775844[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]775845[/ATTACH]</p><p>She finally did deliver a male heir who would survive to adulthood, Commodus, here depicted on a throne with his twin brother:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]775846[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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