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Denarius - Hadrian COS III, Neptune
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 125-127 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS (Translation: Hadrian, emperor.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The COS III designation anchors this issue to Hadrian's third consulship, a period when the emperor was actively consolidating his policy of fixed frontiers rather than further conquest — a deliberate break from Trajanic expansionism that shaped imperial ideology for the next generation. Neptune's prominence in Hadrianic coinage reflects practical politics as much as religion: Hadrian crossed the Mediterranean repeatedly during these years, and the fleet was a logistical backbone of his endless provincial tours.
RIC II.3 #790 is part of the extensive 2007 revision of the original Mattingly-Sydenham volume, which substantially reorganized Hadrianic types.