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Denarius - Hadrian ROMA AETERNAE, Roma
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 137-138 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Roma is depicted seated left upon a throne or curule chair, her figure rendered in flowing drapery falling in vertical folds. In her extended right hand she holds a Palladium — a small statuette of Pallas Athena — while her left hand grasps an upright spear. A large round shield rests against the seat at her side. The composition conveys the eternal, martial dignity of the personified city, and the reverse legend arcing around the field dedicates the issue to the eternal glory of Rome. |
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| Reverse lettering | ROMAE AETERNAE (Translation: Romae Aeternae. To Eternal Rome.) |
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Issued in the final years of Hadrian's reign, this denarius belongs to a concentrated propaganda effort tied to his succession planning — Antoninus Pius was adopted in February 138, and the Roma Aeternae types circulating at that moment were almost certainly deliberate messaging around dynastic continuity after decades of Hadrian's famously peripatetic rule. He had spent more time outside Rome than any emperor before him, which lent the eternity of Rome theme an unusual political charge.