Marcus Aurelius as Ceasar, struck under Antonininus Pius.
Orchalcum sestertius Rome mint 159/60 AD a year before becomming emporer.
27.8 gms 33.5m.
Obverse: Bare head right drapery on shoulder, AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG P11F
Reverse: Mars walking right holding spear and trophy. TR POT X111 COS11 S.C. across fields.
RIC 1352B (Pius)
From the pen of the philosopher emporer, Meditations Book 6.
Consider how many things in the same indivisible time take place in each of us, things which concern the body and things which concern the soul. So thou wilt not wonder if many more things, or rather all things which come into existence in that which is the one and all we call the Cosmos, exist in it at the same time.
