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Sestertius - Hadrian P M TR P COS III S C, Minerva
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 121-123 |
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| Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (121-123) |
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Hadrian's early sestertii — those struck between his accession in 117 and roughly the mid-120s — were produced during a period of deliberate reorientation away from Trajan's expansionist program. The new emperor had already abandoned Mesopotamia and Armenia within months of taking power, a decision so unpopular with the Senate that he reportedly had four senior senators executed, a charge he spent years attempting to distance himself from. The COS III dating places this piece in those same fraught early years, when his patronage of philosophy, architecture, and the traditional Roman cults served partly as political theater.