After 23 years of relative quiet, Antoninus died in 161 CE at 74. He left one last thing behind: an orderly handover, with Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus becoming Rome's first co-emperors. #MarcusAurelius #LuciusVerus

🪷 #WorldBeardDay After #Hadrian made beards fashionable, his chosen heirs all had beards: #LuciusAelius, #AntoninusPius, #LuciusVerus, #MarcusAurelius and #Commodus. The first Saturday of September is World Beard Day. #BeardDay 🪷