Old Coins

AVG meaning : AUGVSTVS , AVGVSTA = emperor, empress AVGG : AVGVSTORVM = emperors (plural genitive) CAES : CAESAR = emperor COS : CONSVL = consul D: DIVVS , DIVA = deified DAC, DAC CAP = who defeated the Dacians for the first and Dacie captive for the second F: FILIVS = son FIL: FILIA = daughter GER : GERMANICVS = winner of the Germans IMP: IMPERATOR = victorious general P M : PONTIFEX MAXIMVS = grand pontiff P P: PATER PATRIAE = father of the homeland S C : SENATVS CONSVLTO = by decree of the senate TR P : TRIBVNICIA POTESTAS = tributary power, renewed every year SPQR: SENATVS POPULI = the senate and the people of Rome

As per History Augustus, Hadrian shows a solid tendency for ladies and young fellows. He likewise keeps a pederastic relationship: his affection for Antinoüs (or Antinoos), a young fellow from Bithynia, is popular. Yet, in 130, Antinoüs suffocated in the Nile in baffling conditions. Hadrian has it addressed ordinarily in sculptures, some of which have come down to us and permit us to give a face to the well known Bithynian. In 130, he additionally established, in his honor, the city of Antinoe in Egypt. This relationship filled in as a contention to his foes. The history specialist Sextus Aurelius Victor (passed on later 390) writes in his Book of Caesars, part XIV, almost 250 years after the fact, when the relations among men and ephebes become undesirable: "We (Hadrian) at last saw him searching for, with circumspect concern, every one of the refinements of extravagance and joy. From that point on 1,000 reports circled to his disgrace: he was blamed for having vilified the hon

Marcus Aurelius  in Latin: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is a sovereign, indifferent rationalist and Roman author conceived April 26, 121 in Rome and passed on Walk 17, 180 in Sirmione (as per Tertullian) or in Vindobona. He is the remainder of the rulers known as the "Five Great Sovereigns" and the last Head of Pax Romana, a period of relative harmony and solidness for the Roman Realm. He was Roman diplomat in 140 , 145 and 161 . Marcus Aurelius was brought into the world during the rule of Hadrian . He is the child of praetor Marcus Annius Verus and beneficiary Domitia Lucilla Minor. His dad passed on when he was as yet a kid and Marcus Aurelius was raised by his mom and his granddads. Later the passing of Hadrian's taken on child, Lucius Aelius, in 138 , the sovereign embraced Marcus Aurelius' uncle, Antoninus Pius, as his new beneficiary. Antoninus thusly embraces Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Aurelius Verus, the child of Aelius. Hadrian kicked the bucket that year

Publius Aelius Hadrianus , known as Hadrian (Imperator Cæsar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, in Latin), conceived January 24, 76 in Italica (close to Seville) and kicked the bucket July 10, 138 in Baïes, is a Roman ruler of the Antonine tradition. He succeeded Trajan in 117 and reigned until his demise in 138. Educated ruler, artist and scholar with a tranquil standing, he broke with the expansionist approach of his archetype, endeavoring to placate and officially structure the Domain, advance by solidifying once in a while permeable lines The primary sources on his daily routine and rule are the Experiences of the Caesars by Congressperson Marius Maximus and the Historical backdrop of Rome by Dion Cassius. Both composed toward the start of the third century, roughly a century later the rule of Hadrian. The main work, composed after the Existence of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, has now vanished; it is extensively taken up, in an exceptionally dense structure, by the Existence of