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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Trebellianus, post: 3172283, member: 91569&quot;]And another! This was promptly dispatched by the seller but, having arrived in the UK, then sat around in customs for a literal month until eventually I was told I needed to pay £9 to retrieve it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway this wasn&#039;t cheap, and perhaps takes a little more circumspection than some (the corrosion on the neck gave me pause) but to my mind this is some absolutely first-rate portrait work -- very regal, very dignified. Hadrian appears, uncharacteristically, in military costume, which ties in neatly with the theme of the reverse. Mattingly associates this design with Hadrian&#039;s first foreign tour -- a propaganda message that the emperor is in the field with his men. Struck very sharply on both sides in a way the photo doesn&#039;t capture at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]815630[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Hadrian</b>, 121-125AD: O: draped, cuirassed, laureate bust right, IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG / R: Virtus standing right on helmet, holding parazonium and reversed spear, P M TR P COS III, VIRT-AVG between, S-C between</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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