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Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Lucius Verus
December 163-December 164, issued by Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
- Medium
- Gold
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 1.9 cm (3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Rome
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Obverse: Head of Lucius Verus right, bare Inscribed: . L . VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS Reverse: Victory stands right, half draped, placing a shield atop a palm tree Inscribed: TRP IIII IMP II COS II
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
