[ancients] Post your Hadrians...

hi Bing,

you are right.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=101275.new#new

cheers,

Eric

 

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Thank you for letting me know. I couldn't find anything but RIC 164d. BTW, a very nice coin.

 

Hadrian Sestertii are BOSS...as the kids say these days.

 

man, i love the reverse on this coin oki..just awesome.

 

Is that what they really say now??? Then it really is true....everything comes back---that was typical back in my day...as was "I gotta split, see ya later .."

Wonderful posts of Hadrian guys!!!

 

far out

 

HA Ha ..That too...but a bit later in my youth....Ah, the decadent and wild '50's and '60's....

 

Hadrian Denarius Roma 134-38 AD Liberalitas standing.
Reference.
RIC 364.

Obv. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P:
Head of Hadrian, laureate, right

Rev. LIBERALITAS AVG in ex COS III
Liberalitas, draped, standing left, holding cornucopiae in both hands as if about to empty it

3.16 gr
18 mm

 

ahaha ... at first, I thought that Hadrian was holding a cat!!



Great new addition, Oki

Cheers

 

Nice detail on the Hadrian piece Oki.

 

Note from Curtis Clay.
This denarius is rare with Liberalitas standing left rather than right as usual.

Cohen 916 cites this variant from a private collection, Elberling, that was published in 1864. That identical Elberling coin, as one can tell from the accurate line drawing, then came to the BM, BMC 524, pl. 57.8, as part of the Blacas collection in 1867. Your specimen is from the same pair of dies as this BM specimen ex Blacas and Elberling. Strack 201 knew only two specimens of this coin, the BM one and another in Vienna. This variant was missing from the Reka Devnia hoard, compared to seven specimens with Liberalitas standing right. I have a specimen with Liberalitas left myself, from different dies than yours and the BM's.

The old RIC of 1926, pp. 316-7, champions a quite impossible date for Hadrian's HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P issue: Mattingly didn't think it fit in 128-9 AD, so proposed that it was a posthumous issue of 138-9, struck by Antoninus Pius as propaganda while he was quarreling with the Senate over Hadrian's deification! Strack objected strongly and correctly in his Hadrian monograph of 1933, and in BMC III of 1936 Mattingly had no choice but to relent and abandon his "posthumous" attribution. This issue is beyond question simply Hadrian's earliest issue with the title Pater Patriae, struck between Hadrian's acceptance of that title in 128 and c. 129 AD.

 

Hadrian Denarius Roma 134-38 AD Pietas
Reference.
RIC 260e

Obv: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P.
Laureate bust right, drapery on left shoulder

Rev: PIETAS AVG.
Pietas seated left, holding patera and sceptre.

3.40 gr
17 mm

 

Hadrian Denarius Roma 119-20 AD Minerva standing
Reference.
RIC 71b; RSC 1065.

Obv. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG
laureate bust right, drapery on far shoulder

Rev. P M TR P COS III
Minerva standing left sacrificing from patera over tripod altar & holding spear.

3.13 gr
17 mm

 

Good grief Oki, how many Hadrians do you have?
All excellent pieces btw.

 

Nice additions, Oki.

 

thx guys,

@aidan i can not start a conversation wnated to tell you how many hadrians.
maybe because u r 17?

all the best

eric

 

I think I fixed it.

 

Hadrian Denarius Roma 125-128 AD Simpulum, aspergillum, ewer, lituus, above Ax
Reference. Rare
RIC --; cohen -- (RIC 198 close with Ax)

Obv. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS
Laureate bust right, drapery on left shoulder

Rev. C_OS III
Simpulum, aspergillum, ewer, lituus above Ax.

3.38 gr

 

common ric 198

 

Great additions.