LUCILLA LUCIUS Verus Wife ICG Certified MS60 Mint State Silver Roman Coin i44984

Item: i44984

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Lucilla – Roman Empress Wife of Lucius Verus – 164-183 A.D.
ICG Certified MS60 !
Silver Denarius Rome mint: 161-162 A.D.
Reference: RIC 758
LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F, draped bust of Lucilla right.
CONCORDIA, Concordia enthroned facing left extending patera in right hang,
resting left elbow on small statue of Spes.

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In
Roman religion
, Concord (Latin:
Concordia, “harmony”) was the
goddess of agreement, understanding, and marital harmony. Her Greek version is
Harmonia
, and the Harmonians and some
Discordians
equate her with
Aneris
. Her opposite is Discordia (or the Greek
Eris
).The cult of Concordia
Augusta
(“Majestic Harmony”) was of special
importance to the
imperial household
. Dedicatory inscriptions to
her, on behalf of emperors and members of the imperial family, were common. The
oldest
Temple of Concord
, built in
367 BC
by
Marcus Furius Camillus
, stood on the
Roman Forum
. Other temples and shrines in Rome
dedicated to Concordia were largely geographically related to the main temple.

Lucilla, Augusta, A.D.
164-182/3
Wife of Lucius Verus
Daughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina Junior
Sister of Commodus, Annius Verus and Aurelius Antoninus
Granddaughter of Antoninus Pius and Faustina Senior

Annia
Aurelia

Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150-182) was the second
daughter

and third child

of Roman Emperor

Marcus Aurelius

and Roman Empress
Faustina
the Younger
and an elder
sister
to future Roman Emperor
Commodus
.

Lucilla was the younger twin. Her elder brother Gemellus
Lucillae died around 150. She was born and raised in
Rome
.
Lucilla’s maternal grandparents were Roman Emperor
Antoninus Pius and
Roman Empress
Faustina the
Elder
and her paternal grandparents were
Domitia Lucilla

and praetor
Marcus Annius Verus
.

Lucilla in 161, was betrothed to her father’s co-ruler
Lucius
Verus
and they married in 164, in
Ephesus
. At
that time, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus were a fighting a
Parthian
war
in Syria
. She
received the title of Augusta and became a Roman Empress.

Lucilla bore Lucius three children: two daughters and a son.
The first daughter was born in 165 in
Antioch
. The
elder daughter Aurelia Lucilla and son Lucius Verus died young. Lucilla was an
influential and respectable woman and she enjoyed her status. She spent much
time in Rome, while Lucius was away from Rome much of the time, fulfilling his
duties as a co-ruler. Lucius died around 168/169.

Sometime in 169, Marcus Aurelius forced her to marry Tiberius
Claudius
Pompeianus
Quintianus, a Syrian Roman who was twice consul and a political
ally to her father. Lucilla and her mother were against this marriage, because
Quintianus was an older man and Lucilla preferred to marry a younger man.
Lucilla around 170, bore Quintianus a son called
Pompeianus
.

Lucilla and Quintianus accompanied Marcus Aurelius in 172, to
Vienna
in
support of the Danube military campaign. They were with him until March 17 180,
when her father died and Commodus became the new emperor. They returned to Rome
and any hope of Lucilla becoming empress again was now lost.

Lucilla was not happy living as a quiet, private citizen in
Rome and became jealous of her brother and her sister-in-law because of all the
attention that they received. Also she became very concerned due to the unstable
behaviour of her brother.

In 182 Lucilla, her daughter from her first marriage Plautia,
her nephew-in-marriage and with help from her paternal cousins the former consul
Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus
and his sister
Ummidia Cornificia Faustina
, had planned to assassinate
Commodus

and replace him with her husband and herself as the new rulers of Rome.

Quintianus’ nephew of the same name burst from his place of
hiding with a dagger, trying to stab Commodus. He said to him “Here is the
dagger the senate sends to you”, giving away his intentions before he had the
chance to act. The guards were faster than he was. He was overpowered and
disarmed without doing the emperor any harm.

Commodus had ordered the deaths of her nephew-in-marriage and
Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus. Lucilla, her daughter and Ummidia Cornificia
Faustina were banished to the Italian island of
Capri
. The
Emperor then sent a centurion to Capri to execute the three women later that
year.

In the 1964 film
The Fall of the Roman Empire
, Lucilla is played by
Sophia
Loren
; in the 2000 film
Gladiator
, she was played by
Connie Nielsen
.