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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2079781, member: 57495&quot;]The 1000th anniversary issues by Philip I are popular and desirable, but Antoninus Pius also issued a commemorative series, a hundred years before that for the 900th anniversary celebrations.&nbsp; Claudius celebrated the 800th, but I don&#039;t know of any commemorative issues for those. </p><p><br /></p><p>The designs for Pius&#039;s issues depicted various scenes from the founding legends of Rome.&nbsp; I can&#039;t remember offhand how many different varieties there were, but here are the two that I have. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]386679[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b>, AE As. 11.02g, 28.6mm. RIC 733.</p><p>Aeneas, a Trojan hero who escaped the fall of Troy, was said to be the ancestor of the Roman people.&nbsp; He journeyed with his followers to Latium, where a divine dream led him to found a new settlement at a site where he came across a white sow suckling her young by a river under an oak tree. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]386680[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b>, AE As. 11.34g, 27.8mm. RIC 694a.</p><p>Rhea Silvia was a vestal virgin, daughter of Numitor, the King of Alba Longa, and a descendant of Aeneas.&nbsp; She was seduced by the god Mars, and from their union bore the twins Romulus and Remus.&nbsp; Romulus would go on to found the city of Rome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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