RB168 - Romano-British,
Commodus
(A.D.177-192), British Victory type, AE Sestertius, 20.17g., Rome mint, A.D. 184-185,
laureate bust right, M COMMODVS ANTON AVG PIVS BRIT, rev., seated figure of
Victory right on shields, inscribing shield set on knee TR P X IMP VII COS
IIII, VICT BRIT in exergue (Askew 33; RIC 452), about fine.
$150
SOLD
In
the last months of Marcus Aurelius's life there was a serious incursion by
the northern tribes into the province of Britannia, the wall was overrun and
possibly even the governor himself lost in battle. The wall in question is
likely to have been the Hadrianic frontier, the Antonine wall having been
already abandoned. Ulpius Marcellus was dispatched by to Britain and by A.D.
184 had secured a victory for the now sole emperor Commodus. This type was
struck in commemoration of that victory.
