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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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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | Minerva, goddess of wisdom and war, depicted standing left in full figure, clad in a long chiton and aegis, extending a patera over a small altar with her right hand and holding an upright spear in her left. The figure is rendered in the classical tradition with drapery falling in vertical folds. A beaded border surrounds the design, and the reverse legend is distributed in the field around the central type. |
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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 third consulship, held from 119 AD, coincided with a period of deliberate administrative consolidation after the expansionist policies of Trajan. The PMTRP COS III titulature places this issue precisely within that reset — Hadrian was actively deprioritizing military adventurism and redirecting imperial energy toward provincial governance and infrastructure, a shift that made Minerva, goddess of craft and wisdom rather than war, an unusually pointed choice for the reverse.