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As - Hadrian IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 121-123 |
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| Value | As = 1⁄16 Denarius |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG (Translation: Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus. Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, Trajan Hadrian, emperor (Augustus).) |
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Hadrian's early bronze coinage was produced amid a deliberate rebranding of imperial identity — he dropped "Traianus" from his titulature on most issues within a few years of accession, making the brief window of 121–123 the only period when his full name acknowledged his adoptive lineage so explicitly in the legend. The political logic was straightforward: Trajan's wars of expansion were over, and Hadrian's program of consolidation and withdrawal needed a distinct image.
RIC II.3 #619 falls within the revised Carradice and Buttrey corpus, which substantially reorganized the earlier RIC II attribution sequence for Hadrianic bronzes.