Some did take advantage of the offer.Īncient authors specifically mention the fact that Marcus included in his auction a fine selection of articles from his wife’s wardrobe.
Years later, after the conclusion of the war, the emperor found a surplus of money still left from these sales so he offered to buy back anything which purchasers did not wish to keep. The auction lasted for two months with an auctioneer conducting the sales and a financial steward keeping careful records of the transactions. Coin portrait of Nero at about twenty years of age. From both of these sources Marcus made his selection of imperial heirlooms and had them wheeled down to the Forum of Trajan in carts. Marcus Aurelius, like his adoptive father Antoninus Pius, disliked this structure and chose instead to reside in the old palace originally built by Tiberius early in the first century A.D. The Flavian Palace was the most modern and had been completed by Domitian in A.D. Actually on the Palatine Hill in Rome there were two palaces furnished with works of art and luxury items collected by earlier emperors.
The costs of the war could not be sustained by the depleted treasury, so Marcus decided upon a public auction! The goods would come from the imperial palace. To protect his Danubian provinces, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius personally led campaigns against the Marcomanni from A.D.
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