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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 5197179, member: 5682&quot;]What a nice sestertius. I have a similar, but more common silver example.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214587[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1214588[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 163 Marcus Aurelius Denarius. M ANTONINVS AVG ARM PART MAX, laureate head right / TR P X IMP IIII COS III, Victory standing right, holding palm branch and placing shield inscribed VIC-PAR in two lines on palm tree.</p><p>(My guest, but not my pictures)</p><p><br /></p><p>I would add to your wonderful post that it was Marcus Aurelius&#039; co-emperor Lucius Verus (actually, mostly Verus&#039; generals) who did the fighting in the East against Parthia. Marcus Aurelius was too preoccupied fighting Germanic incursions in the West to help much with the Parthian conflict.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214593[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Being co-emperor, however, Marcus Aurelius would share in the triumph over Parthia.</p><p><br /></p><p>The politics of the Armenian (ARM) - Parthian (Part) conflict, however, are too complicated for my ossified brain right now.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice coin and wonderful history. Thanks for sharing.</p><p><br /></p><p>g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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