SARM. Sarmatico, on a coin of Commodus. SARM. (DE). This appears, with the type of a heap of armour, on gold, silver, and brass coins of M. Aurelius, who in his thirty-first tribunitian power and third consulship (viz., A.D. 177) triumphed over the Germans and Sarmatæ, and in the following year these coins, with a representation of the arms of those warlike tribes engraved for a trophy on their reverse, were struck in remembrance of the event. -- In the year v.c. 932 (A.D. 179), another revolt having taken place on the part of these trans- Danubian nations against the Roman power, Aurelius, who had gone forth on this second northern expedition a year before, conquered the Marcomanni, the Hermunduri, the Quadi, and the Sarmatæ in a bloody battle, and for that victory was called Imperator X. -- The next year, engaged in an almost internecine contest against the same obstinate enemies of the empire, he died of disease, at Vindobona, in Pannonia (Vienna) at the age of 50. View whole page from the |Dictionary Of Roman Coins| |