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Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150 – 182)
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Lucilla- This Roman coin is in pretty rough shape. After all, it has been kicking around for over 18 centuries, but even still, I really like the texture on it. Photographically, it presented a few challenges. This coin has a very matte surface so it absorbs all the light. When it's photographed, even with a combination of side and frontal lighting, as I used, the relief on the coin was barley visible. To bring out the bust out of the background I had to dodge and burn different areas of the image.
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150 – 182)
In light of her brother's unstable rule, in 182 Lucilla became involved in a plot to assassinate Commodus and replace him with her husband and herself as the new rulers of Rome. Her co-conspirators included Tarrutenius Paternus, the head of the Imperial Guard, her daughter Plautia from her first marriage, a nephew of Quintianus also called Quintianus, and her paternal cousins, the former consul Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus and his sister Ummidia Cornificia Faustina.
Quintianus' nephew, brandishing a dagger or sword, bungled the assassination attempt. As he burst forth from his hiding place to commit the deed, he boasted to Commodus "Here is what the Senate sends to you", giving away his intentions before he had the chance to act. Commodus's guards were faster and the would-be assassin was overpowered without injuring the emperor.
Commodus ordered the deaths of Quintianus' nephew and of Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus, and banished Lucilla, her daughter and Ummidia Cornificia Faustina to the Italian island of Capri. He sent a centurion there to execute them later that year. Her son Pompeianus was later murdered by Caracalla.
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150 – 182)
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Lucilla- This Roman coin is in pretty rough shape. After all, it has been kicking around for over 18 centuries, but even still, I really like the texture on it. Photographically, it presented a few challenges. This coin has a very matte surface so it absorbs all the light. When it's photographed, even with a combination of side and frontal lighting, as I used, the relief on the coin was barley visible. To bring out the bust out of the background I had to dodge and burn different areas of the image.
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150 – 182)
In light of her brother's unstable rule, in 182 Lucilla became involved in a plot to assassinate Commodus and replace him with her husband and herself as the new rulers of Rome. Her co-conspirators included Tarrutenius Paternus, the head of the Imperial Guard, her daughter Plautia from her first marriage, a nephew of Quintianus also called Quintianus, and her paternal cousins, the former consul Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus and his sister Ummidia Cornificia Faustina.
Quintianus' nephew, brandishing a dagger or sword, bungled the assassination attempt. As he burst forth from his hiding place to commit the deed, he boasted to Commodus "Here is what the Senate sends to you", giving away his intentions before he had the chance to act. Commodus's guards were faster and the would-be assassin was overpowered without injuring the emperor.
Commodus ordered the deaths of Quintianus' nephew and of Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus, and banished Lucilla, her daughter and Ummidia Cornificia Faustina to the Italian island of Capri. He sent a centurion there to execute them later that year. Her son Pompeianus was later murdered by Caracalla.