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Denarius - Hadrian P M TR P COS III AET AVG, Aeternitas
| Uitgever | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Jaar | 119-120 |
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| Waarde | 1 Denarius |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Laureate and draped bust of Hadrian facing right, with a short, neatly trimmed beard rendered in fine detail characteristic of the Hadrianic portraiture style. The emperor is depicted with curling hair beneath the laurel wreath, the drapery visible at the truncation of the shoulder. The encircling legend is incuse in Latin capitals, running clockwise from the lower left around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Latin |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Hadrian's early coinage after 117 AD reflects a deliberate ideological pivot away from Trajan's expansionist program. The Aeternitas type belongs to a broader series of abstractions — Pax, Felicitas, Justitia — that Hadrian promoted in his first years to signal stable, perpetual rule rather than conquest. The timing matters: he had just abandoned Trajan's Mesopotamian gains and needed a theological argument for retrenchment.
The COS III dating anchors this firmly to 119–120, his third consulship, before the title HADRIANVS became standard on the obverse legend.