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As - Hadrian COS III S C
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 125-127 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | COS III S C (Translation: Consul Tertium. Senatus Consultum. Consul for the third time. Decree of the senate.) |
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| Mint | Rome |
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Hadrian's third consulship, held in 119 AD, was largely ceremonial by the time these asses were struck — he never held a fourth, making COS III the terminal consular marker for virtually his entire active reign. The S C formula on bronze coinage of this period reflects the Senate's formal authorization of aes coinage, a constitutional fiction that both sides maintained even as imperial control over the mint was total. RIC II.3 #820 falls within the reorganized sequence established by the revised second edition, which substantially reclassified Hadrianic bronzes previously misattributed across earlier die studies.