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Aureus - Hadrian, Trajan, and Plotina DIVIS PARENTIBVS
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 130 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC II.3#1421, OCRE#ric.2_3(2).hdn.1421 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck around 130 AD, this aureus belongs to a small group of posthumous issues Hadrian produced honoring his adoptive father Trajan and Trajan's wife Plotina — the woman widely credited with engineering Hadrian's own adoption on Trajan's deathbed in 117. Whether that deathbed adoption was genuine or a fabrication coordinated by Plotina remains one of the more contested questions in Roman imperial history. Hadrian had every political reason to commemorate her conspicuously.
The DIVIS PARENTIBVS legend — "to the divine parents" — frames both as consecrated. Plotina had received deification under Hadrian himself, not Trajan.