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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 8235689, member: 42773&quot;]<b>Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla</b> or <b>Lucilla</b> (7 March 148 or 150 – 182) was the second daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor" rel="nofollow">Roman Emperor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" rel="nofollow">Marcus Aurelius</a> and Roman Empress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger" rel="nofollow">Faustina the Younger</a>. She was the wife of her father&#039;s co-ruler and adoptive brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" rel="nofollow">Lucius Verus</a> and an elder sister to later Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus" rel="nofollow">Commodus</a>. Commodus ordered Lucilla&#039;s execution after a failed assassination and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" rel="nofollow">coup</a> attempt when she was about 33 years old. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucilla" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucilla" rel="nofollow">wiki</a>]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448738[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Lucilla, AD 164-182</p><p>Æ sestertius, 30mm, 24.3g, 12h; Rome mint.</p><p>Obv.: LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F; Draped bust right.</p><p>Rev.: VENVS; Venus standing front, head left, holding apple in extended right hand and vertical scepter in left; S – C</p><p>Ref.: RIC 1763 (Marcus Aurelius).</p><p><br /></p><p>She was played by the fetching Connie Nielsen in the 2000 film Gladiator...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448739[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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