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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4957554, member: 110350&quot;]Here are a few Marcus Aurelius coins I own and like:</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus as Caesar, in his beardless youth phase, with Honos on the reverse (RIC III 429a, RSC II 110):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1191812[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus as Augustus, with Providentia on the reverse (RIC III 50, RSC II 519):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1191815[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1191816[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, my only Marcus Aurelius bronze, a sestertius with a reverse showing him raising a kneeling figure of Italia, who is wearing a turret and holding a globe (RIC III 1078, Sear RCV II 4997). According to David Sear (see RCV II at p. 315), this coin &quot;commemorates the deliverance of Italy from the threat of barbarian invasion resulting from the emperor&#039;s successes in his wars against the Germanic tribes of the Danubian region.&quot; I believe this is the same coin type that [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] posted above.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1191819[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another image of the reverse, for which I fiddled with the exposure and color just to make it easier to see the figures in detail; the actual color is chocolate brown, as in the first photo:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1191820[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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