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Denarius - Hadrian P M TR P COS III, Oceanus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 121-123 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (121-123) |
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Hadrian's fascination with the sea was more than aesthetic — he crossed the Mediterranean repeatedly during his provincial tours, and his administration invested heavily in harbor infrastructure at Ostia and Caesarea. The Oceanus type belongs to a broader programmatic coinage issued during his early travels, when the mint at Rome was producing thematic reverses aligned with Hadrian's philosophical and geographical interests rather than standard dynastic messaging.
RIC II.3 #523 falls within the reorganized Hadrianic sequence established by the 2007 revision of RIC volume II, which substantially reclassified earlier attributions.