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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4699458, member: 89514&quot;]My study of the imperial titulature on Roman bronze medallions of 147-196 AD strongly indicated that virtually all of them, so doubtless virtually all of the earlier and later bronze medallions too, were struck late in each year but with their titles adjusted to fit with the upcoming 1 January, clearly with the intention of being handed out as New Year&#039;s gifts on that day.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the strongest proofs of this thesis is the year 193, when Commodus was assassinated on 1 Jan., yet what looks like a full year&#039;s production of medallions survives for him, many dated TR P XVIII (after 10 Dec. 192). For Pertinax alive, Didius Julianus and family, and Septimius and family (wife Domna and Caesar Albinus), in contrast, not a single bronze medallion of 193 survives, since none of their reigns included a New Year&#039;s celebration and they therefore had no need of bronze medallions.</p><p><br /></p><p>One minor problem: a unique bronze medallion of Divus Pertinax is known. Either this was one of the very few bronze medallions which were produced for some other occasion than the New Year&#039;s celebration, or it might have been part of Septimius&#039; issue of 1 Jan. 194, commemorating his consecration of Pertinax some six months earlier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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