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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7832400, member: 85693&quot;]Hadrian struck dupondii with laureate busts, c. 128-138.&nbsp; Below is one I have with no patina and you can see it is brassy.&nbsp; The one posted by [USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER] above is of the same &quot;series,&quot; I think.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is discussed in the &quot;Chronology&quot; section, Richard Abdy, Peter Mittag, <i>Roman Imperial Coinage II.3: From AD 117 to AD 138 - Hadrian</i> (p. 20). You can read this section via Google Books:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=D8nYDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA20&amp;dq=hadrian+dupondius&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiK8eXP3LDyAhXWXM0KHXJwBYUQ6AEwAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&amp;q=hadrian%20dupondius&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=D8nYDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA20&amp;dq=hadrian+dupondius&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiK8eXP3LDyAhXWXM0KHXJwBYUQ6AEwAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&amp;q=hadrian%20dupondius&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=D8nYDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA20&amp;dq=hadrian+dupondius&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiK8eXP3LDyAhXWXM0KHXJwBYUQ6AEwAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&amp;q=hadrian dupondius&amp;f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346072[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Hadrian&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Dupondius</b></p><p><b>(c. 134-138 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[HADRI]ANVS [AVG COS III P P], laureate bust right / FID[ES PVBLI]CA S C, Fides standing right, holding two corn-ears downwards, in right hand and basket of fruit in left.</p><p>RIC II, 3 2269; BMC 1591; (old RIC 890d (dupondius))</p><p>(12.15 grams / 23 x 20 mm)</p><p>eBay Jan. 2021&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><b>Attribution Note: </b></p><p>&quot;Laureate bust&quot; dupondius; Hadrian struck these c. 128-138 A.D. </p><p>This type with &quot;PVBLICA&quot; is rare; OCRE has one, which is in the Münzkabinett, Kunst Historisches Museum Wien; British Museum has one as well.</p><p><a href="http://www.ikmk.at/object?id=ID61754" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ikmk.at/object?id=ID61754" rel="nofollow">http://www.ikmk.at/object?id=ID61754</a></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.hdn.809d_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.hdn.809d_as" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.hdn.809d_as</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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