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Quinarius Aureus - Hadrian Victory
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 136 |
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| Value | 1 Gold Quinarius = 121/2 Denarii (25⁄2) |
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| Obverse lettering | HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P (Translation: Hadrianus Augustus, Consul Tertium, Pater Patriae. Hadrian, emperor (Augustus), consul for the third time, father of the nation.) |
| Reverse description | The goddess Victoria advancing briskly to the right, depicted in full figure with large spread wings, her drapery billowing dynamically behind her. She raises a wreath aloft in her right hand and carries a long palm frond in her left. The figure occupies the central field against a plain, unadorned background, with no exergual inscription, rendered in the fluid, energetic style characteristic of Hadrianic coinage. |
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The quinarius aureus denomination — worth half an aureus — saw only sporadic use under the Principate, and Hadrian's issues from the mid-130s represent one of the few sustained imperial commitments to the type. By 136 AD, Hadrian was in deteriorating health and had recently survived a political crisis following the failed Bar Kokhba revolt, which ended in 135. The timing of a Victory type in this context is deliberate: the suppression of Judaea required rebranding as triumph.
RIC II.3 2248 is among the scarcer of his quinarii aurei, with relatively few specimens traceable across major collections.