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Denarius - Hadrian COS III, Virtus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 126-127 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Obverse lettering | HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS (Translation: Hadrianus Augustus. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus).) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hadrian's third consulship, held from 119 AD, was a largely honorific position by the time these coins were struck — he never sought a fourth, a studied gesture of Republican restraint that aligned with his broader program of presenting himself as a civil administrator rather than a military autocrat. The Virtus type sits within a wider sequence of issues from 126–127 that systematically cycled through personifications associated with imperial virtue, almost certainly connected to Hadrian's return to Rome after his first great provincial tour.