RB167 - ROMAN BRITAIN, Antoninus Pius (138-161), Æ As

RB167 - ROMAN BRITAIN, Antoninus Pius (138-161), Æ As, 10.68g., Rome mint, A.D. 143-144, , laureate draped head right, rev., IMPERA [TOR II], S C across field, Victory hovering left, holding shield inscribed BRITAN, (RIC III 732), rough in parts, critical part of legend visible, fine, directly celebrating a British Victory. $145 SOLD

"He Conquered the Britons through his legate Lollius Urbicus (governor of Britain from A.D. 139-143), another wall of turf, being set up when the barbarians had been driven back."

The Augustan History, Antoninus Pius 5.4.

Following the suppression of a serious revolt in northern Britain early in his reign, Antoninus Pius won his second imperatorial acclamation. At this point it was decided to push the frontier further north from the line of Hadrian’s Wall; the Antonine Wall a turf and timber construction was built across the narrower Forth-Clyde isthmus, bringing the unruly tribes of Lowland Scotland within the borders of the empire.