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Denarius - Hadrian P M TR P COS III SAL AVG, Salus
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 120-121 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Hadrian facing right, with characteristic short beard, rendered in fine high relief typical of early Hadrianic portraiture. The emperor's effigy displays a laurel wreath atop curly hair, with drapery visible at the truncation of the shoulder. The surrounding legend in Latin capitals reads IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, distributed around the periphery of the flan. The portrait exhibits the confident, classicizing style that marks the Roman imperial mint output of the early second century AD. |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Salus seated left on a high-backed throne, extending a patera in her right hand over a serpent rising from an altar to the left; the snake coils upward from the altar to feed from the patera, a canonical iconographic formula for the personification of health and well-being. The reverse legend P M TR P COS III is distributed in the field and exergual area, with SAL AVG completing the titulature. The composition is well-centered and executed in the crisp, classicizing engraving style characteristic of the Rome mint under Hadrian. |
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| Mintage | ND (120-121) |
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