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As - Hadrian COS III S C, Janus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 124-125 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II.3#748, OCRE#ric.2_3(2).hdn.748 |
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| Reverse lettering | COS III S C (Translation: Consul Tertium. Senatus Consultum. Consul for the third time. Decree of the senate.) |
| Edge | Plain |
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The COS III dating places this as firmly within Hadrian's third consulship, a period when the emperor was largely absent from Rome on his celebrated tour of the eastern provinces. The Janus type on an as was a deliberate archaism — Janus was among the oldest of Roman divinities and his appearance on bronze coinage at this moment likely reflects the mint's interest in projecting continuity and ancestral Roman piety during a reign defined by Hellenophile tastes that made many senators deeply uneasy.
RIC II.3 #748 is part of the revised Spink corpus that substantially reorganized Hadrianic bronze, reassigning numerous pieces previously misattributed in the older RIC II.