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Denarius - Hadrian COS III, Genius

Issuer Roman Imperial Mint
Year 128-130
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse lettering HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P
(Translation: Hadrianus Augustus, Pater Patriae. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus), father of the nation.)
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Reverse script Latin
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Additional information

Hadrian's third consulship, held from 119 AD onward as a permanent title, provided the dating anchor for a vast and systematically organized coinage program — one of the most deliberately structured in the history of the principate. The Genius type belongs to a broader series issued during Hadrian's extensive provincial tours of the 120s, where cultivating local religious sentiment and projecting imperial piety were as politically calculated as any military campaign.

RIC II.3 reflects the 2019 revised numbering for Hadrian's coinage, superseding the earlier RIC II (1926) sequence entirely.

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