Need some Hadrian - Pile It On!!!

Many decades ago, after visiting Hadrian's Villa outside of Rome, I became fascinated by the opulence and extravagance of his lifestyle. After completing my 12 Caesars collection, I decided to add Hadrian's aurei and sestertii to my collection.

 

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Hard to follow an act like @IdesOfMarch01 with all those beautiful coins but here are a few of my Hadrians that I am fond of.


Roman Empire
Hadrian (AD 117 – 138)
AR Denarius, Rome mint, struck ca. AD 134 – 138
Dia.: 17 mm
Wt.: 2.98 g
Obv.: HADRIANVS AVG COS III PP; Laureate head right
Rev.: AFRICA; Africa with elephant headdress reclining left, holding scorpion and cornucopia, basket of grain at feet
Ex L. Rose Collection


Roman Empire
Hadrian (AD 117-138)
AE Sestertius, Rome mint, struck ca. AD 134-138
Dia.: 31 mm
Wt.: 22.77 g
Obv.: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate and draped bust right
Rev.: PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing left, praying with hands upraised at altar to left; stork to right, S-C across fields
Ref.: RIC II 771

 

My two most recent coins of Hadrian.



AE drachm Hadrian, Alexandria. RY B (=117/8). Obv. Laureate head right. Rev. Hadrian driving quadriga of elephants to right, holding eagle-tipped scepter in his left hand and branch in his right. 12h, 33.5 mm, 19.59 gr. Dattari (Savio) 1597. Emmett 961.2. K&G 32.40. RPC III 5101.



Egypt, Alexandria, Æ8 Hadrian (117-138). Dichalkon. RY 14 = 129/130. Obv. Laureate bust r. Rev. Three corn ears in a bundle. Year L ΙΔ. 8.5 mm, 0.61 gr. Emmett 1176.14 (with rarity 5). RPC 5766.
I believe this is my smallest Roman Provincial coin.

 

Great coins, @TIF. There are at least three types that really need to go on the "must have" list I keep in my head: the type with two facing Canopus jars, the type with the uraeus (to go with my agathodaemon), and the Isis Pharia showing the lighthouse (I have an Antoninus Pius Isis Pharia, but it doesn't depict the Pharos itself).

Your Canopus of Osiris tetradrachm and Arsinoite Nome Obol depicting a pharaoh are both from Year 11, just like mine, but I don't see any die matches. (The "illustrations" on your Canopus are very similar to mine, but not exactly the same -- for example, yours has two little persons, while mine has only one.)

 

Comparing it to the Osiris-Canopus from Hadrian's Villa, most of the design elements are represented on our coins. It sure seems like the die engraver was familiar with the Osiris-Canopus from Hadrian's villa, or a copy of it.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.309276/page-5#post-2971675

 

Mine is very similar as well (with the one difference I mentioned), although I don't know if those similarities imply familiarity with that particular canopus, or if that's what all canopuses (canopi?) of that period looked like.

FYI, the solar disk is flanked by cow horns (together, originally an attribute of Hathor), rather than uraei.