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Denarius - Hadrian PARTHIC DIVI TRAIAN AVG F P M TR P COS P P CONCORD, Concordia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 117 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Concordia seated left on a high-backed throne, wearing a chiton and himation, extending a patera in her right hand and resting her left arm on the back of the throne; a cornucopia may be visible at lower right. The type-name CONCORD appears in the exergue, while the lengthy titulature of Hadrian's accession year occupies the surrounding legend, emphasizing his filial connection to the deified Trajan and his newly assumed magistracies. |
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Hadrian's earliest denarii, struck in 117 AD, were issued under circumstances of acute dynastic anxiety. Trajan died in Cilicia in August of that year without a formally announced heir, and Hadrian's adoption was declared only after the emperor's death — a claim managed by Trajan's wife Plotina, whose role in engineering the succession was widely doubted in Rome. The CONCORD type belongs to a programmatic first-year coinage designed to project legitimacy and senatorial goodwill before Hadrian had even returned to the capital.
RIC II.3 #14 places this among the earliest issues of the reign, likely struck at a Syrian mint before production transferred to Rome.