#aureus

[didoofcarthage]

Aureus with bust of Venus (obverse) and laurel wreath (reverse), minted at Rome under Julius Caesar

Roman, Republican Period, 44 B.C.

gold

British Museum

[corporialus]

Beautiful Aureus featuring a rare 3/4 Facing bust of Postumus, reverse features Postumus seated, suppliant before him.

[hairscare]

humansonas

[lionofchaeronea]

Aureus (diameter=20 mm; weight=7.02 g) minted by the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211 CE) in 204. The coin celebrates Septimius' previous campaign in 198 against the Parthian Empire (which had supported Pescennius Niger, a rival claimant to the Roman throne), culminating in the sack of the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon and the annexation of northern Mesopotamia. (This campaign was to have dire consequences for Rome later on: the weakened Parthians were succeeded by the far stronger Sassanian dynasty, which would threaten the Roman/Byzantine East until the Arab conquests of the seventh century.) The obverse depicts the bust of Septimius, who stresses his piety with the cognomen PIUS and the title P(ONTIFEX) M(AXIMUS). On the reverse is the figure of Victory, holding a laurel wreath and palm frond and surrounded by the legend VICTORIA PARTHICA MAXIMA. This aureus is the only one of its kind known to exist and may have been part of a limited issue, perhaps connected to the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) that Septimius held in 204 to celebrate the anniversary of Rome's founding. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

[empirearchives]

With its fourteen aurei, this necklace was given by Napoléon I in person to his favorite sister, Pauline Borghese.

(Drouot)

[theantonian]

Marcus & Lucius Antonius Gold Aureus. Ephesus mint, 41 BC. M ANT IMP AVG III VIR R P C M NERVA PROQ P, Head of Marcus Antonius, above/ L ANTONIVS COS, head of Lucius Antonius, below.

Obverse translation: Marcus Antonius Imperator Augurus Triumviri Rei Publicæ Constituandæ Marcus Nerva Pro Quæstor Prætore

Reverse: Lucius Antonius Consul

Small, thick, irregular, oval-shaped flank, well centered on both sides. Very nice portraits of Mark Antony and his brother Lucius Antony with a little weakness in the hair for Lucius.

[2eds]

sword gaming

[philoursmars]

Quatrième et ultime étape de mon périple dans l'Ouest pour retrouver des ami(e)s lointain(e)s il y a un bon mois déjà : ma sœur Dominique et son mari, à Alençon, aux confins de la Normandie et des Pays de Loire.

On passe une journée au Mans. Visite du Carré Plantagenêt, musée d'histoire de la ville

statère gaulois - 1er s. av. J-C

Trésor des Sablons - statère gaulois - 1er s. av. J-C.

idem

aureus de Tibère (origine : Lugdunum) - Le Mans, 20 apr. J-C.

deniers de César (Gaule) + de P. Sepullius Macer (origine : Rome) - Le Mans, 50 av. J-C.

chenets et fac simile de chaudron gaulois - Sarthe, IIème s. av. J-C.

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épée et haches - Sarthe, 1500 av. J-C. ;

galet "au Glouton" - Mayenne, magdalénien

[gabehsalass]

Staphylococcus aureus

[nyktoon]

Personal design of UF!Papyrus, codex name “Aureus.” :D

About him and the Underfell setting:

All monsters are required to begin military training as children. Every so often there are trials -- essentially deadly puzzles and obstacle courses -- and tournaments to weed out the weak and elevate the strong. These are subdivided by region and age; all adults of a region compete together, but younger monsters have multiple age brackets. After progressing far enough in the tournament, the fights stop being to-the-death and become about wealth, power, and status. In the adult competitions, the monsters who perform best are recruited to the Royal Guard.

Aureus oversees Snowdin Town as its chief commander (which, as all political positions are also military ones, makes him basically the mayor). He is very personally involved in both youth training and upkeep of the adult militia, and does his best to ensure his trainees and soldiers are capable of surviving. He wants to keep as many of them alive as possible.

Along with combat training, he designs his own puzzle trials that aim to simulate the official ones but do not actually kill the participants, so they can practice to perform better when their lives are on the line. Most of Snowdin Town deeply respects him, but he has trouble with closer interpersonal connections both because of his status and his larger than life personality.

He pushes people hard, and can be overbearing and controlling because he takes his responsibilities very seriously and tends to think people should just listen to him. He has a lot of people's lives on his shoulders... and the gravity of that makes him very assertive and sometimes uncompromising. But it really is all about trying to keep the people under his care safe. Although he looks intimidating, his usual demeanor is friendly and energetic, if somewhat forceful. He's just as genuinely encouraging as he can be demanding.

Aureus doesn't believe anyone is expendable. Everyone has something to offer if they're given the chance to learn and develop. The most heartbreaking thing for him is that not everyone is going to get that chance -- children who might otherwise be late bloomers aren't going to make it through their first trials; that’s part of why he pushes so hard. Even for the most skilled, however, simple mistakes can happen. Inevitably some people won’t make it through. Aureus can't save everyone... but he really does his damndest.

Because of how bleak things generally are, Aureus regularly organizes town festivals to try to keep up morale. Ruber (UF!Sans) helps him with this and is often the one to “break the ice” and get their neighbors into a festive mood, but Aureus himself is quite social and lighthearted at these events.

Snowdin is still considered pretty backwater and therefore low-status, but Aureus's personal friendship with Undyne helps him with requisitioning enough to keep the townsfolk mostly safe and fed, supplemented with Ruber's backchannel gains. Conditions are much worse for the "lesser class" monsters in the more densely populated regions of Hotland and New Home, where the class divide is a lot starker. Waterfall is decently propserous, as Undyne has a fondness for her home region, but even there, people are mindful of their status.

Snowdin's always been a little less rigid because it's so far away from the real centers of power that "anybody who's anybody" doesn't want to be there. There HAVE been bitter, abusive people in charge there before, but under Aureus's command and oversight, the town's culture is much more harmonious and focused on everyone working together to survive. And he is quick to remind people that “even someone from a backwater town can become a great war hero if they try hard enough!!!!”

[mateuscosme]

[corporialus]

Coins of Postumus

Aureus of Postumus in the guise of Hercules, reverse depicts Hercules grasping a mare.

Gold Aureus of Postumus, featuring the busts of Postumus and Hercules on the obverse and Victoria and Felicitas on the reverse.

Aureus featuring helmeted bust of Postumus on the obverse and a trophy with two seated captives beneath on the reverse.

Postumus is widely considered to have some of the most well engraved and unique coins of the third century, and completely surpasses his rival Gallienus in terms of interesting coinage.

[hairscare]

wanted to try and make a guide to demons in my ocverse! feel free to use this if youd like and tag me :)

[lionofchaeronea]

Aureus of the Roman emperor Aurelian, minted at Antioch between November 270 CE and March 272 CE. On the obverse, the laureate bust of Aurelian himself; on the reverse, the laureate bust of Septimius Vaballathus, son of Zenobia of Palmyra. At the time this coin was minted, Palmyra had broken away from Rome and established an empire, with Vaballathus nominally its ruler under the title Augustus (though in fact it was Zenobia who ruled). Aurelian initially accepted this arrangement, being busy fighting usurpers in Gaul, but within months of the minting of this coin, he would forcibly reconquer the erstwhile Palmyrene Empire and take Zenobia and Vaballathus captive. What subsequently became of them is unknown. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

[lordrakim]

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[agelessorca]

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