Roma Numismatics Ltd
E-Live Auction 6 25 Mar 2023
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Commodus Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 184-185. M COMMODVS ANTON AVG PIVS BRIT, laureate and draped bust to right / P M TR P X IMP VII COS IIII P P, Victory seated to right on shields, inscribing shield set on lap; S-C across lower fields, VICT BRIT in exergue. RIC III 452 var. (bust type); BMCRE 560 note. 24.13g, 30mm, 6h.
About Extremely Fine; wonderful brown patina. Very Rare.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XI, 7 April 2016, lot 825 (hammer: £1,600).
Cassius Dio relates in his Historiae Romanae (LXXII.viii.1-6) that in the last months of Marcus Aurelius' 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 was lost in battle. The wall in question is likely to have been the Hadrianic frontier, the Antonine wall having been already abandoned by this stage. Ulpius Marcellus was therefore dispatched to Britain from Rome and by AD 184 had secured a major victory against the tribes, with this magnificent type being struck in commemoration.
About Extremely Fine; wonderful brown patina. Very Rare.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XI, 7 April 2016, lot 825 (hammer: £1,600).
Cassius Dio relates in his Historiae Romanae (LXXII.viii.1-6) that in the last months of Marcus Aurelius' 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 was lost in battle. The wall in question is likely to have been the Hadrianic frontier, the Antonine wall having been already abandoned by this stage. Ulpius Marcellus was therefore dispatched to Britain from Rome and by AD 184 had secured a major victory against the tribes, with this magnificent type being struck in commemoration.