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Denarius - Hadrian P M TR P COS III, Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 121-123 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, with bare chest and traces of drapery visible on the far shoulder. The effigy is rendered in the idealized portrait style characteristic of Hadrianic coinage, with the emperor's distinctive full beard. The obverse legend encircles the bust in Latin capitals, reading IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG. |
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| Mintage | ND (121-123) |
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Hadrian's early joint consulship issues — COS III running from 119 through 138, a span so long it offers little chronological precision on its own — are narrowed here by the P M TR P formula without a tribunician year number, placing this piece in the 121–123 window before the sequential numbering became consistent practice. Hadrian was at this point engaged in the first of his great provincial tours, having already left Rome for Gaul and Britain. The mint was effectively issuing coinage for an emperor who was rarely present to oversee it.