This is another new arrival. I needed some help in confirming the attribution and have @Okidoki to thank for pointing me in the right direction. Hadrian Denarius Obv:- IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, Laureate, cuirassed bust right, baldric strap over shoulder and across chest, seen from front (Bust Type B1) Rev:- P M TR POTES III COS III, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia Minted in Antioch References:- RIC III -, RIC II -; BMCRE -; RSC - (cf RSC 1179e (bust type), which cites Strack *11) 3.19 g. 17.58 mm. 180 degrees
According to my copy of RIC Volume II, Part III published in 2019 by Spink, and assuming your reading of the obverse legend is accurate, you have RIC 2972, minted in Antioch, designated as Antioch Group 4.
I believe that RIC II 2972 has a different bust type Laureate, cuirassed bust right, aegis on left shoulder compare with this one owned by @Okidoki
RIC 2972 is the only entry I can find in my book that has IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG on the obverse and also has "P M TR POTES III COS III, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia" on the reverse. The bust for this coin is described as "laureate, cuirassed with exposed upper part of breastplate visible (usually with balteus strap)." I'll admit that i have no idea whether or not this bust description is the same as yours, especially since I don't know a balteus strap from a baldric strap from a jockstrap. But if it's not 2972 then I'm unable to find it in my latest copy of RIC.
RIC 2972 includes both bust types, unfortunately, since Abdy does not give separate bust codes for what he considers "minor embellishments on busts added at the whim of a die cutter", such as aegis or Medusa head on shoulder or belt running across the emperor's chest (see p. xi, 'Abbreviations'). Abdy does note these "embellishments" in his listing of specimens, but the same catalogue number applies to both the ordinary and the "embellished" specimens. Yet Martin's coin with fold of cloak on front shoulder is a new variety to RIC, since Abdy records only three specimens of this denarius, all noted as having aegis not just fold of cloak on shoulder. Unfortunately however it gets the same catalogue number as these three recorded specimens with aegis. The new RIC Hadrian is without doubt a splendid achievement, but I am disappointed that to a certain degree it will be carrying on a small but annoying shortcoming of Strack's Hadrian catalogue of 1933, namely the use of the same bust code for three different bust types, "Head only", "Bust with fold of cloak on front shoulder", and "Bust with fold of aegis on front shoulder". Distinguishing these three varieties will not help us to reconstruct the chronology of the coinage, Strack argued, to which Mattingly rightly answered in his review of Strack, that it was nonetheless the duty of cataloguers to separate them and record them as different in their catalogues.
