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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Okidoki, post: 2031479, member: 70512&quot;]<font size="4"><b>Hadrianus Sestertius, Roma 134-38 AD Providentia</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p>Reference.</p><p>RIC 772; C 1205</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. HADRIANVS - AVG COS III P P</p><p>laureate head right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev. PROVIDEN-TIA AVG / SC</p><p>Providentia standing left, head left, holding wand over globe and sceptre.</p><p><br /></p><p>23.43 gr</p><p>32 mm</p><p>aVF</p><p><br /></p><p>Extra:</p><p>Wand</p><p>An augur holding a lituus, the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins</p><p>Roman ritual wand[edit]</p><p>The lituus was a crooked wand (similar in shape to the top part of a crosier) used as a cult instrument in ancient Roman religion by augurs to mark out a ritual space in the sky (a templum). The passage of birds through this templum indicated divine favor or disfavor for a given undertaking. The lituus was also used as a symbol of office for the college of the augurs to mark them out as a priestly group.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]369723[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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