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Denarius - Hadrian P M TR P COS III, Roma
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 121-123 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | Roma personified seated left on a throne or pile of arms, helmeted and draped, extending a small Victory figure in her right hand and holding a long vertical sceptre in her left. A large oval shield rests against the throne at her side. The reverse legend is distributed in the field to left and right of the central figure, with no exergual inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hadrian's early coinage as sole emperor coincided with his deliberate dismantling of Trajan's eastern conquests — Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Assyria were abandoned within his first year, a policy so controversial that the senate nearly refused him a triumph. The COS III designation places this issue after his third consulship began in 119, with the TR P notation incrementing annually, allowing these pieces to be dated with unusual precision relative to much Roman imperial coinage.
Roma as a reverse type carried pointed political weight under Hadrian, who was the first emperor to undertake systematic tours of the provinces and who founded or refounded dozens of cities across the empire.