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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1225829, member: 19463"]No.  Marcus Aurelius was then known as Antoninus so the Divus M Antoninus Pius is Divus Marcus Aurelius.  Of the odd things in coin naming one of the most odd is there is no coin of Antoninus Pius that reads 'Antoninus Pius'.  If his coins include 'Pius' there is an AVG separating the two parts ANTONINVS AVG PIVS.  His Divus issues read DIVVS ANTONINVS  (no PIVS).  Antoninus Pius was a Titus not a Marcus.  Many of his coins have Antoninus but no Pius; any coin reading ANTONINVS PIVS belongs to someone else.  This page gives the idea in pictures:<a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=DIVVS+ANTONINVS&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ol=1&sort=&c=&a=&l=#18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=DIVVS+ANTONINVS&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ol=1&sort=&c=&a=&l=#18" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=DIVVS+ANTONINVS&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ol=1&sort=&c=&a=&l=#18</a><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=DIVVS+ANTONINVS&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ol=1&sort=&c=&a=&l=#18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=DIVVS+ANTONINVS&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ol=1&sort=&c=&a=&l=#18" rel="nofollow"> </a><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=DIVVS+ANTONINVS&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ol=1&sort=&c=&a=&l=#18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=DIVVS+ANTONINVS&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ol=1&sort=&c=&a=&l=#18" rel="nofollow">Y</a>ou have to scroll down quite a bit before you get to the Marcus Aurelius coins.[/QUOTE]

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