Roma Numismatics Ltd
E-Live Auction 6 25 Mar 2023
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Hadrian Æ As. Rome, AD 119-120. IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG, laureate bust to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / PONT MAX TR POT COS III, Britannia seated facing, foot on rock, drawing hood and holding sceptre, shield to right; S-C across fields, BRITANNIA in exergue. RIC II.3 241; BMCRE 1175. 7.21g, 25mm, 5h.
Extremely Fine. Rare.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 41, 2 December 2017, lot 758 (hammer: £1,600).
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).
Extremely Fine. Rare.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 41, 2 December 2017, lot 758 (hammer: £1,600).
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).