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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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| Reference(s) | RIC II.3#519, OCRE#ric.2_3(2).hdn.519 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | P M TR P COS III (Translation: Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate, Consul Tertium. High priest, holder of tribunician power, consul for the third time.) |
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Hadrian's early coinage from 121–123 AD reflects a period of deliberate administrative consolidation following his controversial accession — Trajan had named no clear successor, and Hadrian's claim rested on a deathbed adoption many in the Senate considered forged. The execution of four senior senators in his first year, though Hadrian denied ordering it, left relations with Rome's elite fractured for years.
RIC II.3 519 belongs to the extensive Minerva reverse series struck across this period, a type produced in sufficient volume that die links across specimens have been extensively catalogued in recent scholarship revising the older Mattingly-Sydenham attributions.