To read the Reddit post on r/AncientCoins, see:
Gladiator II(https://www.reddit.com/r/AncientCoins/comments/1fs13th/gladiator_ii/?rdt=40468)

Featured in this pic: Antoninianus of Caracalla and Denarii of Geta, Lucilla and Macrinus.

To read the complete Instagram post, see:
https://www.instagram.com/classical_numismatics/p/DCg_gCuKJVj/

Gladiator II was what we all expected, a flashy, bloody, completely ahistorical movie made merely for entertainment. Here is something for the history lovers: The Coins that circulated in Rome at the time the story takes place

To watch the video, see:
The Coins of Gladiator II(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c7OtZJx7jQ)

The secret son of Maximus, the eponymous gladiator portrayed by Russell Crowe in the 2000 movie, Lucius must retrace his father's footsteps, achieving fame as an enslaved fighter driven by his desire for revenge against his family's killers.

Much like its predecessor, Gladiator II takes a relatively loose approach to history, compressing timelines, borrowing real historical figures' names but little of their stories, and inventing other characters entirely. As historian Allen Ward wrote in 2001, the first Gladiator was both "the best of films" and "the worst of films," igniting the public's interest in the ancient world while perpetuating many of the myths surrounding the era. "Certainly creative artists need to be granted some poetic license, but that should not be a permit for the wholesale disregard of facts in historical fiction and costume dramas," Ward added. "In most cases, the easily determined factual details would not have made Gladiator less interesting or exciting, and the record of Commodus' reign contains characters and events that could easily make what is now a good story even better history."

Lucius, the main character of the sequel, appears in Gladiator as Lucilla's son. He idolizes Maximus but is unaware that the former general is also his father. After Maximus' death, Lucilla sends Lucius to Numidia, a territory in northwest Africa, to protect him from imperial intrigue. There, he builds a new life for himself, eventually marrying and starting a family. At the beginning of Gladiator II, he is forced to return to Rome after an army led by the fictional general Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal) invades Numidia, kills Lucius' wife and son, and sells him into slavery as a gladiator.

To read the complete article, see:
The Real History Behind Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator II' and Life as a Fighter in the Ancient Roman Arena(https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-history-behind-ridley-scotts-gladiator-ii-and-life-as-a-fighter-in-the-ancient-roman-arena-180985494/)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
Gladiator Movies' Family Tree - Maximus & Marcus Aurelius Relatives & All Connections(https://thedirect.com/article/gladiator-movies-family-tree-maximus-marcus-aurelius-relatives)