Ancient Roman - Denarius - Lucilla - Circa (149-182 CE)

Denomination: Silver Denarius

Date: Circa 165-169 AD

Mint: Rome

Mount: 18K gold

Description: Obverse: Inscription - LVCILLA AVG ANTONINI AVG F - Draped bust right. Reverse: Inscription - CONCORDIA. Concordia sitting to the left, holding a Patera, arm resting on a small statue of Spes, goddess of hope. 

History: Concordia was the goddess of agreement, understanding, and marital harmony; and was often used on coins of emperors' wives to tell the people about their closeness of mind to the emperor.  Lucilla (150-182 AD) was the second daughter and third child of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the younger and was the elder sister to future Roman Emperor Commodus.  In 164 AD, she married Lucius Veras who was co-emperor with her father, Marcus Aurelius. In 169 AD she was widowed at 20 when Lucius Veras died.  Annie Lucilla did not remain a widow, but married the older Tiberius Claudius Panpeianus Quintianus of Antioch. 

Having once been Augusta, wife of Emperor, Lucilla was not satisfied with a quit, private life with a man of much lower station. in 182 AD Lucilla was implicated in one of numerous past to overthrow her own brother, now the emperor, Comodus and replace him with her husband and herself as new rulers of Rome. Lucilla was banished to the island of Capreae in 182 AD.  

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