Marcus Aurelius was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors. He was a practitioner of Stoicism, and his untitled writing, commonly known as Meditations, is a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy.
During his reign, the Roman Empire defeated a revitalized Parthian Empire in the East. In central Europe, Aurelius fought the Marcomanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians with success during the Marcomannic Wars, although the threat of the Germanic peoples began to represent a troubling reality for the Empire.
Marcus Aurelius fell ill and died on 17 March 180, in the city of Vindobona. He was immediately deified and his ashes were returned to Rome.
Reverse: Μ ΑVΡΗΛΙΟС ΚΑΙСΑΡ VΙΟС СƐΒΑC, Bare headed bust of Marcus with short beard, facing right, wearing cuirass, and paludamentum
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 26.92 g
Reverse: Athena advancing right, holding spear and shield, serpent at foot; CI_ΔH_TωN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 5.4 g
Reverse: winged thunderbolt; KOINON MA_KEΔONΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 8.95 g
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Reverse: IMP VI COS III, Victory placing a shield inscribed VIC GER in two lines on trunk of palm; SC in fields
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 25.22 g
Reverse: TRPOT XIII, Virtus standing right, foot on helmet
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 33 g
Reverse: IMP VI COS III, Marcus Aurelius standing left, holding scepter & branch
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: COS DES II, Honos standing left holding branch and cornucopiae
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: [IMP VIII COS III P P] PAX AETERNA AVG, Pax standing l., holding cornucopiae and setting fire to a pile of arms, S - C in fields
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 10.5 g
Reverse: TR POT XIIII COS II, Mars advancing right, carrying spear and trophy, SC in fields
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 11.61 g
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Reverse: ΑΝΤ ΠΡ ΙΠ ΙƐΡ ΑСΥΛ, Tyche standing facing, head left, wearing turret headdress, holding small horse and cornucopia
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 9.2 g
"The Decapolis (Greek: Δεκάπολις Dekápolis, Ten Cities) was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the southeastern Levant. The cities were grouped together because of their language, culture, location, and political status, with each functioning as an autonomous city-state. Though sometimes described as a "league" of cities, it is now believed that they were never formally organized as a political unit. The Decapolis was a center of Greek and Roman culture in a region which was otherwise ancient Semitic-speaking peoples (Nabataeans, Arameans, and Judeans). In the time of the Emperor Trajan, the cities were placed into the provinces of Syria and Arabia Petraea; after a later reorganization several cities were placed in Syria Palaestina and later Palaestina Secunda. Most of the Decapolis region is located in modern-day Jordan, but Damascus is in Syria and Hippos and Scythopolis are in Israel."
Reverse: TR POT XII COS II S C / Felicitas standing left, leaning on column and holding caduceus and scepter
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 15.21 g
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Reverse: TR POT VI COS II, Genius Exercitus, holding standard and sacrificing from patera over altar
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 3.23 g
Reverse: Virtus standing right, holding spear and parzonium, stepping on helmet; VIRTVS__COS II
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.09 g
Reverse: Fortuna Redux seated left holding rudder and cornucopiae; TR POT XXII•IMP V COS III / S__C / FORT RED
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 23.5 g
Reverse: Felicitas standing left holding caduceus and scepter; FELICITAS__AVG__IMP VIIII COS III P P / S__C
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 20.55 g
Reverse: Providentia standing left holding scepter; globe at feet; TR POT III__COS II
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.47 g
Reverse: Tiber reclining left, hand on prow of galley; IMP VII COS III / S C
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 10.27 g
Reverse: Armenia seated left, mourning, vexillum and shield before, hand on bow; P M TR P XIX IMP II COS III / ARMEN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 2.8 g
Reverse: Providentia standing left holding globe and cornucopia; PROV__DEOR TR P XVII COS III
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.38 g
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Reverse: TR P XXIX IMP VIII COS III, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornuopiae
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 2.91 g
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Reverse: LIBERAL AVG V COS III / Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus and cornucopiae
Die Orientation: 1 H
Weight: 3.25 g
Reverse: Providentia standing, head left, wand in right hand, globe at feet to left, scepter in left hand, SC across fields, text (TR•POT•XIX•IMP•III•COS•III)
Die Orientation: -
Weight: -
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Reverse: [C]O[NSECRA]TIO, eagle flying right, bearing aloft Marcus Aurelius, holding sceptre; S C across fields
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 23.95 g
Reverse: naked athlete advancing left holding racing torch and palm branch; Melikertes-Palaimon lying on dolphin left; behind pine-tree; C L I COR
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 10.6 g
Reverse: Providentia standing left, holding wand over globe and sceptre.
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 24 g
Reverse: IMP VII COS III, Roma, helmeted, draped, standing facing, head left, holding Victory in extended right hand and vertical spear in left hand; S-C in fields
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 24.89 g
ex. CNG eAuction 457 Lot 289
Reverse: VOTA SVSCEP DECENN II, Marcus Aurelius, veiled, togate, standing left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over a tripod and holding scroll in left hand; COS III in exergue; S-C in fields
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 21.24 g
VOTA SVCEP[TA] DECENN[ALIA] II = Vows(prayers) undertaken for twenty years of rule
Reverse: Legend: COS III S C Type: Minerva, helmeted, draped, advancing right, brandishing javelin in right hand and holding shield in left hand
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 11.06 g
Reverse: Legend: TR POT III COS II Type: Minerva, helmeted, draped, standing right, holding vertical spear in right hand and resting left hand on round shield set on ground
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 3.32 g
Reverse: Legend: FIDES EXERCITVVM COS III S C Type: Fides, draped, standing left, holding Victory in right hand and legionary eagle in left hand
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 21.78 g
Reverse: KOINON ΘECCAΛWN, Athena Itonia advacing right with javelin and shield
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 8.58 g
Reverse: Legend: TR P XX IMP IIII COS III Type: Victory, naked to waist, standing front, head right, holding palm, upright, in right hand and with left hand fixing shield, inscribed VIC PAR, on palm-tree right
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 2.68 g
Reverse: LIBERAL AVG V COS III (The generosity of the Emperor for the 5th time, Consul for the 3rd time), Liberalitas, draped, standing front, head left, holding coin counting board up in right hand and cornucopia in left hand
Die Orientation: 1 H
Weight: 2.69 g
Reverse: CONCORD AVG TR P XVII COS III, Concordia, draped, seated left on low seat, holding patera in extended right hand and resting left arm on statuette of Spes: which seems to rest on the cornucopia
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 2.97 g
Reverse: TR POT XX IMP IIII COS III S C, Victory, winged, naked to waist, standing front, head right, holding palm in right hand and with left hand placing on palm-tree a shield inscribed, VIC PAR
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 11.66 g
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Reverse: SALVTI AVG COS III S C, Salus, draped, standing left, feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled round altar and holding scepter in left hand
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: VOTA PVBLICA S C, Marcus Aurelius, togate, standing,left and Faustina the Younger, draped, standing, right, clasping hands: behind and between them, Concordia standing, front, head right
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
"Faustina was originally engaged to Lucius Verus, Marcus’ future co-emperor. Her father, however, dissolved this engagement and in AD 145 Faustina was married to Marcus. The couple is shown in the position of dextrarum iunctio (joining right hands), a symbol of concord and the gesture adopted during marriage ceremonies." - CNG
Reverse: CONSECRATIO S C, Eagle, head left, standing right on garlanded altar
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: IMP VI COS III S C, Jupiter, naked to waist, seated left on throne, holding Victory, standing left and offering crown, on extended right hand, and holding long sceptre in left hand
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: CONSECRATIO S C - Eagle, head left, standing right, on globe
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
minted under Commodus
Reverse: PIETAS AVG S C - Priestly emblems: from left to right, knife, sprinkler, jug, lituus, simpulum.
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: IMP VIII COS III P P DE SARMATIS S C - Pile of captured arms consisting of cuirass, shields, helmet, vexillum, carnyces, and spears
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 0 g
Reverse: COS III / S-C - Mars walking right, holding spear in right hand and trophy over left shoulder, S-C across fields.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 27.35 g
Reverse: TR POT XIIII COS II / S-C - Mars walking right holding spear and trophy, S-C across fields.
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 23.33 g
Reverse: IMP VII COS III / S-C - Mars running left, holding Victory and trophy, S-C across fields.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 26.25 g
Reverse: TR POT XXIII IMP V COS III / S-C / FORT RED - Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. S-C across fields, FORT RED in ex.
Die Orientation: 5 H
Weight: 22.7 g
Reverse: LIBERALITAS AVG VII IMP VIII COS III PP / S-C - Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus and cornucopiae, S-C across fields.
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 19.44 g
Reverse: TR P XXXIII IMP X COS III P P: Salus, draped, seated left on low seat, holding two corn-ears (or poppy, or branch); at her feet, snake coiled round altar
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 2.74 g
Reverse: CONSECRATIO S C: Eagle, head left, standing right on garlanded altar
Die Orientation: 6 H
Weight: 23.2 g