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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 1300474, member: 8959&quot;]This coin unfortunately does not photograph well (it is actually better in hand), but it does commemorate a significant military campaign in the reign of Septimius Severus, which brought a measure of peace, finally, to Rome&#039;s most distant province.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have always wondered at the mettle, courage, desire for adventure and expansion, or whatever you want to call it of those romans. What on earth propelled them to go far north, into a forbidding territory so vastly different from the sunny fields of their native Italy.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. Æ As. </p><p>Struck 210-211 AD. SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate head right / VICTORIAE BRITTANNICAE, S C in exergue, Victory standing right, holding vexillum in both hands, captives seated at feet on either side. RIC IV 837a; BMCRE 228; Cohen 736</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is some background to the events commemorated by this As Septimius Severus: (quote from an internet source)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; In 208 AD Septimius Severus together with the entire imperial family (his wife Julia Domna and their sons Caracalla and Geta) set out for Britain where the situation on the northern frontier demanded urgent attention. He was to spend the last two and a half years of his life in the island province and was destined never to return to Rome. Together with his elder son, the co-emperor Caracalla, he campaigned vigorously beyond the imperial frontier, penetrating far into Scotland. The line of their marching-camps can still be detected today by aerial photography. Severus also restored Hadrian&#039;s Wall, the northern frontier of the province, which was in serious need of renovation now that more than eighty years had elapsed since its original construction. Little is known of the success of these military operations, though they were to bring peace to the area for the remainder of the third century and an extensive issue of coinage in all metals was produced to commemorate the British victory&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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