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Denarius - Hadrian GERMANIA, Germania
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 130-133 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Personification of Germania standing facing, head turned to the right, rendered as a tall female figure clad in a long draped garment. She holds an upright spear in her right hand and rests her left hand upon a large round shield set at her side. The reverse legend GERMANIA is inscribed in the field flanking the figure, identifying the personified province within a dotted border. |
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| Reverse lettering | GERMANIA |
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Hadrian's Germanic issues belong to his celebrated "travel series," a coinage program launched after his extensive provincial tours to project an image of imperial unity across the frontiers. The personification on these coins was not commemorating a conquest — Rome had abandoned aggressive Germanic expansion after the catastrophic loss of three legions in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. Hadrian formalized that restraint into policy, consolidating the Rhine-Danube frontier rather than pushing beyond it.
RIC II.3 1522 is among the more frequently encountered of the provincial personification types, produced at Rome during a concentrated run in the early 130s.