This is the coin I won from @Curtisimo and his guess the CTer challenge, and @Ryro donated this epic coin for the game! Thank you so much to both of you! HADRIAN 117-138 AD. AR Denarius (17mm, 2.89gm). Struck 134-138 AD. Head right / Egypt reclining against basket left, holding sistrum, ibis at feet. RIC II 297; RSC 99. Ex-Savoca This coin commemorates Hadrian's visit to Egypt in 130-131 AD. It was while Hadrian was on tour in Egypt that his favorite, Antinoüs, "mysteriously" drowned in the Nile. So great was the emperor's grief that he commanded a series of religious rituals to be performed in the young man's honor, and, on the site where the body was recovered, Hadrian ordered the construction of a city called Antinöopolis in honor of the young man.
An absolute stunner right there, my man! I am on the lookout for a good Africa and Germania. Here’s my Egypt, won at the same auction as @CoinBlazer and favorite Hadrian portrait:
wow! kool prize CB..i've been trying to get one o dos travel coins of his for the longest....outstanding @Ryro & @Curtisimo ......
Each Christmas I give each of my five grand kids an ancient coin. This year I decided to give them a sestertius of Hadrian. Here are the ones they will receive. I think a great way to get younger people interested in our hobby is to give them something they can hold in their hands that reeks of history. Two of the grandkids have been to Scotland and walked Hadrian's Wall, so this will have some special meaning to them.
it is a crystallized coin is dropped on a hard surface or handled roughly, it may break. While the exterior of the coin appears to be normal silver, the interior is white and does not appear metallic. Although crystallization is the popular term used to describe this fragile condition, the term is a misnomer.