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Lucilla (daughter of M. Aurelius) AV Aureus. Rome, AD 161-162. LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust to right / VENVS, Venus standing to left, holding apple and long sceptre. RIC III 783 (Aurelius); C. 69; BMCRE 320 (Aurelius); Calicó 2218. 7.24g, 20mm, 12h.
Good Extremely Fine; a beautiful portrait in high relief.
Ex Dr. Hans Krähenbühl Collection;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch, Auction XLVIII, 22-24 June 1966, lot 39.
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla was the second of six daughters born to Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger. In AD 161, at the age of twelve, she was betrothed to Lucius Verus, her father's adoptive brother and co-Emperor, and was married in AD 164 in Ephesus while Lucius Verus was on campaign against the Parthians. After her husband's sudden death in AD 169, she was remarried to an elderly senator, Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus. When her brother Commodus succeeded their father as Emperor in AD 180, Lucilla reportedly became involved in a plot to assassinate him. The plot was foiled, and Commodus exiled his sister to the island of Capri, where she was supposedly executed.
Good Extremely Fine; a beautiful portrait in high relief.
Ex Dr. Hans Krähenbühl Collection;
Ex Gerhard Hirsch, Auction XLVIII, 22-24 June 1966, lot 39.
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla was the second of six daughters born to Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger. In AD 161, at the age of twelve, she was betrothed to Lucius Verus, her father's adoptive brother and co-Emperor, and was married in AD 164 in Ephesus while Lucius Verus was on campaign against the Parthians. After her husband's sudden death in AD 169, she was remarried to an elderly senator, Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus. When her brother Commodus succeeded their father as Emperor in AD 180, Lucilla reportedly became involved in a plot to assassinate him. The plot was foiled, and Commodus exiled his sister to the island of Capri, where she was supposedly executed.