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English: A bronze as of Antoninus Pius, from the figures decorating the margins of Moll's map of Northamptonshire, sold separately and as Map 25 in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales... The illustration is a reengraving of Figure 9 in Tabula I Nummi Romani from William Camden's Britannia, Vol. I, p. 98.

Obverse: ANTONINVS·AVG·PIVS·P·P·TR·P·X· [Antoninus Augustus Pius Pater Patriae Tribunicia Potestas X[VIII], Emperor Antoninus the Devout Father of the Fatherland 18th Year of Tribunician Power]

Reverse: BRITANNIA COS IIII [Britannia Consul IIII, Britain 4th Time Consul] and SC [Senatus Consulto, with the consultation of the Roman Senate]

Camden's note states "5, 6, 9. The fifth and sixth (both of Antoninus Pius) with this inscription, ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS. P. P. TR. P. COS. III. and on the reverse of the one, Britain sitting on the rocks, with a military ensign, a spear, and a shield; but on that of the other, the same Britain sitting upon a globe. These seem to have been stamped by the British province, in honour of Antoninus Pius, at his coming to the empire, in the year of Christ 140. The military habit of the province of Britain, assures us, that at that time it flourished in military discipline. So the money coined by Italy in honour of him, upon this occasion, has such a figure sitting upon a globe, with a cornucopia, to signify plenty of all things: that by Sicily, has the figure, with ears of corn, to denote fruitfulness and that by Mauretania, a person holding two spears with an horse, to imply the peculiar glory of that province in cavalry. And hither also is to be referred the ninth, which is the same Antoninus's, but not put in its proper place."

Actual coin of the same issue.