Antonius Pius r. 138 - 161 AD
bronze As
Terry Nix coll. -p auth
Antoninus Pius bronze As, rev Britannia Seated with "BRITANNIA" fully spelled out
full legends: ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P. TR.P. XVIII/
"BRITANNIA COS. IIII SC", Sear 1188, struck 154 - Feb 155 AD
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table class = Imperial
Marcus Aurelius r. 161 - 180 AD
AE 36 of Amaseia or Amasya Pontes
struck 163/164 AD
reverse: M.Aurelius with Lucius Verus; his co-Emperor.
Nick Economopoulos, ca. 1990
Amasya Pontes is shown in this cell background.
Coin weight = 21.947 grams. This is the weight of a standard Roman sestersius of M. Aurelius which is
typically 22 to 26 grams.
Translation notes
AYT KAIC M AYΡ ANTΩNINΩ CEB = IMPERATOR? Marcus Aurelius (as AUGUSTUS), CEB or CEP =??
AΔΡ AMAC NEΩK K MHT K ΠΡΩ ΠONT, exergue: ET ΡCΘ = possibly? in honor of, + the city name + the year of M.A.'s reign
This coin is listed on WildWinds.
It is found here, under the Pontos Amaseia page where it is the 3rd
coin down under Marcus Aurelius.
wildwinds.com/coins/greece/pontos/amaseia/i.html
All coins of Marcus Aurelius
wildwinds.com/coins/ric/marcus_aurelius/i.html
Marcus Aurelius is known as the Stoic Roman Emperor and his Meditations survive as an example of this philosophy.
Julian, also known as Julian the Apostate or Julian II, may have also embraced Stoicism as he seemed to practice that philosophy but didn't write about it.
Stoic groups can be found here. It uses logic, what was known about human psychology in ancient times, and the pursuit of wisdom as a good, as a guide.
Commodus r. 180 - 192 AD
bronze As showing Commodus wearing the
Lion Skin headress of Hercules
purchased from Terry Nix, Houston, TX, ca. 1999.
Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius
The deified Commodus: (obv)
Debased
(40%) silver antoninianus issued by Trajan Decius as part of a set of 12
commorative antoninainii. Commodus was the only "bad Emperor" in the group.
Note that the antoninianus was 1st issued during the reign of
Caracalla in 215 AD. Thus an antoninianus of Commodus had to have been
issued postumusly. This coin appears to be silver throughout, unlike my
latter issues which appear to be just silver plated.
Didius Julianus r. 193 A.D.
sestersius
abt extremely fine
Heritage auctions 2011
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