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Aureus - Hadrian VOT PVB, Genius
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 133-135 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse lettering | HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P (Translation: Hadrian, emperor (Augustus), consul for the third time, father of the nation.) |
| Reverse description | Two standing figures flank a central altar: at right, the Genius of the Senate, draped and togate, holding a long sceptre; at left, the Genius of the Roman People, similarly draped, extending a patera in the right hand and cradling a cornucopia in the left arm. The altar between the figures is rendered with architectural detail. The reverse legend VOT PVB appears in the field above the altar, referencing the public vows offered on behalf of the emperor and state. |
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The VOT PVB legend — vota publica — refers to the annual public vows renewed each January 3rd, when Rome formally prayed for the emperor's health and continued rule. Hadrian's issues bearing this type cluster in the final years of his reign, when his health was visibly failing and the succession question had become urgent enough that he had already adopted and then watched his first chosen heir, Lucius Aelius Caesar, die on New Year's Day 138 AD, before the vows could even be completed.