Roman Personalities
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A collection of coins that highlight personalities that defined Roman culture from the late Republic to end of the Western Empire.
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049. Antoninus Pius
Antoninus Pius The long reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius is often described as a period of peace and quiet before the storm which followed and plagued his successor, Marcus Aurelius. In addition...
050. T. Aelius Antoninus and T. Aurelius Antoninus
Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 24.70 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 149. Laureate head right / Crossed cornucopias from which a grape bunch flanked by two grain ears hang, surmounted by...
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051. Faustina I
Faustina I Annia Galeria Faustina, "the Elder", was the wife of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, an aunt of Marcus Aurelius, and mother of Faustina the Younger. She was the daughter of the consul...
052. Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius The joint succession may have been motivated by military exigency. During his reign Marcus Aurelius was almost constantly at war with various peoples outside the Empire. Germanic tribes and other peoples launched...
053. Faustina Jr
Faustina Jr Originally promised by Hadrian to Lucius Verus, Atoninus betrothed her to his cousin Marcus Aurelius in 139; they married in 145. She was raised to an Augusta the following year. She was...
054. Lucius Verus
Lucius Verus Lucius Verus was a well educated, active participant in military and political affairs. He had a colorful personality. He is reputed to have been one of the most handsome of emperors whose...
055. Commodus
Commodus According to Gibbon, the emperor Commodus spent the early years of his reign "in a seraglio of three hundred beautiful women and as many boys, of every rank and of every province." Later,...
056. Crispina
Crispina Crispina married the sixteen year-old, Commodus in the summer of 178 and brought him, as a dowry, a large number of estates. These, when added to the Imperial holdings, gave him control of...
056. Lucilla
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla (March 7, 150–183) was the daughter of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger. In AD 164, she was betrothed by her father to his co-emperor and adoptive...
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057. Pertinax
Pertinax. A.D. 193. AR denarius (18.0 mm, 2.74 g, 7 h). Rome mint. Rare. IMP CAES P HELV PERTIN AVG, laureate head right / OPI DIVIN TR P COS II, Ops seated left, holding...
058. Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus. AD 193. Æ Sestertius. Rome mint. Laureate head right / Concordia standing left, holding signum in each hand. RIC IV 14; Banti 1
059. Manlia Scantilla
Manlia Scantilla. Augusta, AD 193. Æ Sestertius (26mm, 16.91 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Didius Julianus. Draped bust right / Juno standing facing, head left, holding patera and scepter; peacock at feet to...
060. Didia Clara
Didia Clara. Augusta, AD 193. Æ Sestertius (31.5mm, 22.05 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Didius Julianus. Draped bust right / Hilaritas standing left, holding long palm frond set on ground and cornucopia. RIC...
061. CLODIUS ALBINUS
CLODIUS ALBINUS, as Caesar. 193-195 AD. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.14 gm). Rome mint. Bare head right / Roma seated left on shield, holding Victory and reversed spear. RIC IV 11b; RSC 61a. VF. ...
062. Pescennius Niger
BITHYNIA, Caesarea. Pescennius Niger. AD 193-194. Æ 22mm (6.35 g). Laureate head right / KAI C AREIA C GERMANIKH C, coiled serpent left. RG p. 282, 9, pl. XLIV, 8 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen...
063. Septimius Severus
AR Denarius (19mm, 3.41 gm). Struck 200-201 AD. SEVERVS AVG PART MAX, laureate head right / RESTITVTOR VRBIS, Septimius standing left, holding patera in right hand over tripod altar, and spear in left. RIC...
064. JULIA DOMNA
JULIA DOMNA, mother of Caracalla. When Septimius Severus claimed the empire after Didius Julianus had succeeded Pertinax in 193, two serious rivals challenged him, Pescennius Niger in the East and Clodius Albinus in the...
065. Caracalla
AR Denarius (19mm, 3.11 gm). Struck 215 AD. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate head right / P M TR P XVIII COS IIII PP, Sol standing left, radiate, raising right hand and holding globe....
067. Plautilla
Plautilla From the time of his name change to Antoninus, Caracalla was the designated heir of Severus. Less than three years later he was proclaimed emperor, officially joining his father as co-rulers of the...
068. Geta
Geta, as Caesar, Publius Septimius Geta was the younger son of the emperor Septimius Severus. Geta's rivalry with his older brother, Caracalla, culminated in Geta's murder less than a year after Severus' death. Tradition...
069. Macrinus
Macrinus. AD 217-218. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.25 g, 7h). Rome mint. 1st emission, AD 217. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Salus seated left, feeding serpent from patera. RIC IV 84; Szaivert 3; Clay...
070. Diadumenian
Marcus Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus or Diadumenian (d. 218) was the son of Roman Emperor Macrinus, who served his father briefly as Caesar from May, 217 to 218, and as Augustus in 218. Diadumenian had...
071. Elagabalus
Elagabalus was and is one of the most controversial Roman emperors. During his reign he showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. Elagabalus' name is a Latinized form of the Semitic...
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072. Julia Maesa
Julia Maesa (about 170- about 226) was daughter of Julius Bassianus, priest of the sun god Heliogabalus, the patron god of Emesa in the Roman province of Syria, and grandmother of the Roman emperor...
073. Julia Soaemias
Julia Soaemias Julia Soaemias Bassiana (180-March 11, 222) was the daughter of Julia Maesa, a powerful Roman woman of Syrian origin, and Julius Avitus. She was niece of emperor Septimius Severus and sister of...
074. Julia Paula
JULIA PAULA, wife of Elagabalus. Augusta, 219 AD. AR Denarius (20mm, 2.67 gm). Rome mint. Draped bust right / Concordia seated left holding patera; star in left field. RIC IV 211 (Elagabalus); RSC 6a....
075. Aquilia Severa
EGYPT, Alexandria. Aquilia Severa, second & fourth wife of Elagabalus. Augusta, 220-221 & 221-222 AD. Potin Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.54 gm). Dated year 5 (221/222 AD). Draped bust right / Eagle standing left, head right,...
076. Annia Faustina
PHRYGIA, Hierapolis. Annia Faustina. Augusta, AD 221. Æ (23mm, 5.93 g, 6h). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / A/KTI/A in three lines within wreath. SNG München 245; BMC 148. VF, earthen green-brown surfaces. Rare....
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077. Severus Alexander
Severus Alexander A child when chance brought him to the principate, with only two recommendations, that he was different from Elagabalus and that he was part of the Severan family, he proved to be...
078. ORBIANA
ORBIANA, wife of Severus Alexander. Augusta, 225 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.83 gm). Diademed and draped bust right / Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae. RIC IV 319; RSC 1. VF, porous....
079. Julia Mamaea
ulia Avita Mamaea (180–235) was the daughter of Julia Maesa, a powerful Roman woman of Syrian origin, and Julius Avitus. She was a niece of emperor Septimius Severus and sister of Julia Soaemias...
080. Maximinus Thrax
Maximinus Thrax The first of the "soldier-emperors," Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus spent all three years of his reign on campaign. Although Rome's senatorial elite was eventually able to bring about the downfall of this...
081. Paulina
Diva Paulina. Died before AD 235. Æ Sestertius (21.22 g, 12h). Struck under Maximinus I, circa AD 236. Veiled and draped bust right / Paulina holding sceptre and raising hand, seated left on peacock...
082. Maximus
Maximus Caesar AS / Sacrificial Implements Attribution: RIC IV 7 S Date: 235-236 AD Obverse: C IVL VERVS MAXIMVS CAES, bust r. Reverse: PIETAS AVG, lituus, knife, patera, vase, simpulum, and sprinkler, SC in...
083. Pupienus
Pupienus. AD 238. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 25.78 g). Rome mint. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Victory standing left, holding wreath and palm. RIC IV 23. F, brown patina.
084. BALBINUS
BALBINUS. 238 AD. AR Denarius (21mm, 2.92 gm). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Victory standing facing, head left, holding wreath and palm. RIC IV 8; BMCRE 37; RSC 27. Good VF, toned,...
085. Gordian I
EGYPT, Alexandria. Gordian I. AD 238. Potin Tetradrachm (23mm, 11.50 g, 12h). Dated RY 1 (AD 238). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Eagle standing left, head right, wreath in beak; L A...
086. Gordian III
Gordian III was a child emperor, but his reign was not perceived as having been burdened by the troubles faced by other young emperors. Competent administrators held important posts, and cultural traditions appear to...
087. Tranquillina
Tranquillina THRACE, Deultum. Sabina Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III. Æ 23mm (8.03 gm). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing on altar between two standards. Jurukova 413.
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088. Philip I
Philip I Philip the Arabian remains an enigmatic figure because different authors evaluated his reign with wildly divergent interpretations. Christian authors of late antiquity praised the man they regarded as the first Christian emperor....
089. Otacilia Severa
Very little is known about the wife of Philip I. In A. D. 237, she gave birth to a son who was later to become the emperor Philip II. Even the reverses of the...
090. Philip II
Philip II, as Caesar, AR Antoninianus. M IVL PHILPPVS CAES, Radiate,draped & cuiressed bust right / PRINCIPI IVVENT, the prince standing left, holding globe & standard. RIC 218d, RSC 48
091. Trajan Decius
Trajan Decius Decius' reign was not well-suited to the demands of a rapidly changing empire.[[45]] Conservatism may have been popular among a certain portion of the Roman elite, but the old aristocracy's power and...
092. Herennia Etruscilla
Herennia Etruscilla Herennia Etruscilla was the wife of the emperor Trajan Decius. She was the mother of Herennius Etruscus and Hostilian, both of who became Roman Emperors during the reign of their father. Little...
093. Herennius Etruscus
Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius (c. 227 - July 1, 251), was Roman emperor in 251, in a joint rule with his father Trajan Decius. Emperor Hostilian was his younger brother. Herennius was born...
093a. Hostilianus
Gaius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus (died 251), was Roman emperor in 251. Hostilian was born in an unknown date, after 230, as the son of the future emperor Trajan Decius by his wife Herennia...
094. Volusianus
Volusianus was given the title of Caesar upon the accession of his father, Trebonianus Gallus, to the imperial throne of Rome. He was shortly promoted to emperor along with his father. They were both...
095. Aemilian
Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus was born about AD 207 either on the island of Jerba in Africa, or somewhere in Mauretania. His career saw him becoming senator and reaching the office of consul. In AD...
095. Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus
Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus (206 - August, 253), was Roman emperor from 251 to 253, in a joint rule with his son Volusianus. Gallus was born in Italy, in a family with respected ancestry...
096. Cornelia Supera
MYSIA, Parium. Cornelia Supera, wife of Aemilian. Augusta, AD 253. Æ 20mm (4.44 g). Diademed and draped bust right / Capricorn right. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 7448. Fair, green and red patina,...
097. Valerian I
Valerian I. AD 253-260. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 19.99 g, 5h). Rome mint. 2nd emission, AD 254-256. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopia. RIC V 157; MIR 36,...
098. Diva Mariniana
Diva Mariniana, wife of Valerian I. 253-260 AD. AR Antoninianus (3.04 gm). DIVAE MARINIANAE, veiled and draped bust right, resting on a crescent / CONSECRATIO, peacock flying right, carrying Mariniana who is veiled and...
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