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Commodus. AD 177-192. Æ Sestertius ( 27mm, 21.38 g, 7h). British Victory issue. Rome mint. Struck AD 185. M COMMODVS ANT ON AVG PIVS BRIT, laureate head right / P M TR P X IMP VII COS IIII P P, S C across field, VICT BRIT in exergue, Victory seated right on shields, cradling palm frond in right arm, and placing left hand on shield set on knee; two shields on ground to left. RIC III 452; MIR 18, 665-6/30 var. (rev. legend); Banti 485; BMCRE 560; SCBC 648. Warm brown surfaces, well struck, minor smoothing. VF.
From the DMS Collection.
Cassius Dio records a serious uprising in Britannia just before or after the death of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus becoming sole emperor. The rebels defeated and killed a Roman general (possibly the governor, Caerellius Priscus) and breached Hadrian’s wall, causing widespread havoc. Commodus sent the previous governor, Ulpius Marcellus, with reinforcements to restore order, but this was not fully accomplished until circa AD 184. This sestertius records the “Victory in Britannia” and awards Commodus the title Britannicus, although he never left Rome during the war.
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