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Hadrian Æ As. Rome, AD 119. [IMP CAESAR] TRAIANVS HADRIANVS [AVG], laureate head right / PONT [MAX TR] POT COS III, Britannia seated facing, foot on rock, holding sceptre, shield to right, S-C across fields; BRITANNIA in exergue. RIC 577a. 8.58g, 27mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Very Rare.
The first appearance on a coin of the personification of the Roman province of Britannia was struck early in the reign of Hadrian and presumably commemorates the suppression of an uprising of the northern British tribes that had begun shortly before or after Trajan's death. The trouble on the northern frontier made obvious the need for a strong fortification to mark the northern boundary of Roman Britain, which would eventually manifest itself as the Vallum Aelium (Hadrian's Wall).
Very Fine. Very Rare.
The first appearance on a coin of the personification of the Roman province of Britannia was struck early in the reign of Hadrian and presumably commemorates the suppression of an uprising of the northern British tribes that had begun shortly before or after Trajan's death. The trouble on the northern frontier made obvious the need for a strong fortification to mark the northern boundary of Roman Britain, which would eventually manifest itself as the Vallum Aelium (Hadrian's Wall).