Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clavdivs, post: 3336526, member: 93702&quot;]A new addition for my Adoptive Emperor set (wanted to finish the set with this Emperor).. it&#039;s an unusually nice coin for me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883785[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>COMMODUS AUGUSTUS AE sestertius. 184–185 AD.</p><p>M COMMODVS ANT-ON AVG PIVS BRIT, laureate head of Commodus right.</p><p>Reverse - VOTA SVSCEP DECEN P M TR P X IMP VII COS IIII P P, emperor, veiled and togate, sacrificing left from patera over tripod, S—C across field.</p><p>33mm, 24.4g.</p><p><br /></p><p>The following references came with the coin:</p><p>RIC 454a. Cohen 990. BMCRE 564 variant (ANTONINVS in obverse legend).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking for a coin of Commodus with the Britannicus legend (if at all possible).. a name he took in 184 after trouble occurred with the violation of the Antonine Wall and Commodus gained the title upon the victory in Britain (although there is a lot more treachery to the whole story)..</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the reverse is interesting - depicting Emperor sacrificing to begin the &#039;vota suscepta decennalia&#039; festival... celebrated with games every ten years.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p>This festival owed its origin to the fact that in 27 BC, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" rel="nofollow">Augustus</a> refused the supreme power offered to him for life. Instead, he would only consent to accepting power for ten years; during the festival, he would surrender up all of his authority to the hands of the people, who, filled with joy, and charmed with the goodness of Augustus, immediately delivered it back to him again. The memory was preserved to the last ages of the empire by <i>Decennalia</i>, which was solemnised by subsequent emperors every tenth year of their reign, although they had received the imperium for life, and not for the limited period of ten years.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the festival, the people offered up vows to the emperor, called <i>vota decennalia</i>, for the success and perpetuity of his empire. Roman coinage was specially modified during this time to indicate the undertaking of these vows, such as with the inscription VOTA SUSCEPTA DECENNALIA, or VOTIS X</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post any coins of Commodus..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in