Selection of Coins dedicated to the Roman Military:
Marc Antony
denari
for his legions approaching
the battle of Actium, issued for all his legions and the praeorina
guard,
and the speculatores
Caligula ADLOCUTIO
Sestertis, showing him giving
a speech to the Praetorian guard, who had supported him after Tiberius
death
Civil War 68/69
Vitellius
FIDES EXERCITUM,
denarius
Traian's series of
serti with military themes...
Hadrian and his army
"DISCIPLINA"
The EXERCITUS
Series of Hadrian, issued
for provincial armies when Hadrian visitied that
province on one
of his many travels across the empire:
EXERCITUS
BRITANNICUS, DACICUS, MAURETANICUS, RAETICUS, SYRIACUS
Britannia
Dacia
MauretaniaRaetia
Syria
Marcus Aurelius,
Sestertius, Profectio Aug
Commodus,
Sestertius, Fid Exercit
sestertius
medaillon
Didius Julianus
CONCORDIA
MILITUM, denarius
Septimius Severus' Legionary
Denari
A series of coins was struck to celebrate all legions that supported
Septimius Severus (see legionary
coin section)
Some examples:
Legio
III Italica,
Regensburg
Legio VIII Augusta, Strasbourg
Macrinus
FIDES MILITUM,
sestertius
Philippus I Arabs
antoninianus,
FIDES
EXCERCITUS
Gallienus Legionary Antoniniani
for all Legions
that supported Gallienus in building the central field armny against
Aureolus
at Mediolanum
Delmatius
GLORIA
EXERCITUS,
AE 3, soldiers and signa
Constantius II
Solidus GLORIA
REIPUBLICAE, emperor in armour, Roma and Constantinopolis
Magnentius
GLORIA ROMANORUM, AE 2, emperor on horse (Barbarian imitation)
Valentinianus I
GLORIA ROMANORUM,
AE 3, emperor dragging barbarian