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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3962127, member: 57495&quot;]I think Curtis Clay sums it up nicely below (quoted from <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=24565.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=24565.0" rel="nofollow">an old Forvm thread</a>):</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Antoninus was with Hadrian when he died at Baiae on 10 July 138.&nbsp; The Senate intended to condemn Hadrian, and it was this anti-Hadrianic feeling which dictated the total elimination of all of Hadrian&#039;s names from Antoninus&#039; first legend as Augustus, IMP ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS.</i></p><p><i>&nbsp;&nbsp; Antoninus, however, intended to have Hadrian consecrated.&nbsp; Either upon reconsideration, or as a result of communication from the emperor, Hadrian&#039;s gentile name Aelius was reintroduced into Antoninus&#039; second and third obv. legends.</i></p><p><i>&nbsp;&nbsp; When Antoninus, escorting Hadrian&#039;s body, reached Rome one or two weeks after Hadrian&#039;s death, he will have obliged the Senate to stop equivocating and consecrate Hadrian, thereby earning the title Pius.&nbsp; So his fourth obv. legend included this new title, and also HADRI.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>So, as I understand it, the suggestion is that the very first issue was issued without Pius&#039;s input, and possibly even the next ones which introduced AEL to the legends.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you follow the progression of obverse legends for A-Pi&#039;s silver coins provided by Mattingly in BMCRE, yours and Doug&#039;s were issued when he was Caesar.&nbsp; This is the sequence of AD 138 obverse legends, together with the reverse ones, where yours falls into Issue 1 as Caesar -</p><p><br /></p><p><b>AS CAESAR</b> (25 Feb - 10 Jul 138) :</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Issue 1</b></p><p>IMP T AEL CAES ANTONINVS / P M TR POT COS</p><p>IMP T AEL CAES HADR ANTONINVS / P M TR POT COS</p><p>IMP T AEL CAES HADR ANTONINVS / TRIB POT COS</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Issue 2</b></p><p>IMP T AEL CAES ANTONINVS / TRIB POT COS DES II</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>AS AUGUSTUS</b> (from 10 July 138) :</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Issue 1&nbsp; </b></p><p>IMP ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS / TRIB POT COS DES II</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Issue 2&nbsp; </b></p><p>IMP ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS / TRIB POT COS</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Issue 3</b></p><p>IMP T AEL CAES ANTONINVS AVG / PONT MAX TR POT COS</p><p>IMP CAES AEL ANTONINVS AVG / PONT MAX TR POT COS</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Issue 4</b></p><p>IMP CAES AEL ANTONINVS AVG PIVS / PONT MAX TR POT COS</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Issue 5</b></p><p>IMP CAES T AEL HADRI ANTONINVS AVG PIVS / PONT MAX TR POT COS</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Issue 6 </b></p><p>IMP T AEL CAES HADR(I) ANTONINVS / AVG PIVS P M TR P COS DES II</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1043591[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS, as Caesar</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 2.91g, 20.8mm. Rome mint, AD 138. RIC 447a (Hadrian). O: IMP T AEL CAES ANTONINVS, bare head right. R: TRIB POT COS, Diana standing right, holding bow and arrow.<i> </i></p><p><i>Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, previously held by the American Numismatic Society (1001.57.4904)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Here&#039;s another AD 138 issue, Issue 6 as Augustus, like Doug&#039;s second coin, with AVG PIVS on the reverse :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1043592[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.2g, 19.5mm. Rome mint, AD 138. RIC 9 var. (rev legend). O: IMP T AEL CAES HADRI ANTONINVS, bare head right. R: AVG PIVS P M TR P COS DE (sic!) II, Minerva standing left, holding Victory in her right hand and shield with her left; spear leaning on her left arm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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