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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 24484139, member: 128351"]I doubt very much this sestertius represents a bridge built in northern Britain. And I doubt also Trajan's bridge sestertius represents the bridge he built on the Danube. As a rule, architectural depictions on SC coinage of the Rome mint always represent buildings in Rome. The bridge on Severus' sestertius is obviously not a military crossing but a urban lavish monumental building. The two gates, with their three arches separated by columns and topped by a row of statues, are reproductions of Severus' triumphal arch on the Roman Forum. [ATTACH=full]1549636[/ATTACH] There were 7 bridges in Rome under Septimius Severus : pontes Aelius, Neronianus, Agrippae, Aurelius, Fabricius, Sestius and Aemilius. Most of them were very old and had to be restored several times during the imperial era. I am convinced the bridges on Trajan and Severus' sestertii commemorate restorations and embellishments. Provincial monuments are never depicted on regular SC coinage but can be represented on exceptional medallions. There are medallions of Commodus minted in Rome but representing the harbour of Alexandria. There is a famous gold medallion of Constantius I, minted in Trier, representing the walls of Londinium by the river Thames. There is a unique lead medallion of Diocletian and Maximian, found in the Saone at Lyons, representing the bridge on the Rhine between Cassel and Mainz :[ATTACH=full]1549644[/ATTACH] (BNF)[/QUOTE]