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Reece Period 9    180-193 AD       PAS Info

Coin issuers: Commodus, remembered as a cruel megalomaniac, and also Bruttia Crispina, the daughter of L. Fulvius Bruttius Praesens. She married the future emperor when he was 16 years old. After ten years of marriage, she was banished to Capri for adultery and later killed. 

BNJ Refs: Presidential Address 2015. Coin hoards and hoarding (4): The denarius period, AD 69–238, Roger Bland, BNJ 86 (2016)
                 'Two Denarius hoards from Birnie, Mora', N. M. McQ Holmes, vol. 76 (2006)
                 'A roman coin hoard from Barway, south of Ely, Cambridgeshire', David Barrowclough, 84 (2014), 225-9.