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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Okidoki, post: 2542927, member: 70512&quot;]<b>Hadrian Denarius Roma 138 AD Eagle standing</b></p><p>Reference.</p><p>RIC 389B; RSC 271; </p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. DIVVS HADRIANVS AVG</p><p>Head of Divus Hadrian, bare, right</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev. CONSECRATIO</p><p>Eagle standing front on globe, head turned left, wings spread</p><p><br /></p><p>3.04 gr</p><p>18 mm</p><p>6h</p><p><br /></p><p>Note.</p><p>Consecratio was the apotheosis of the dead Roman emperors, which however was only bestowed on those who were judged worthy of her by the Senate or by their successors.</p><p>However, it is well known, how generous people in Rome with this honor mishandled. Even empresses enjoyed after their death the privilege of consecratio. After their consecratio they got the nickname of Divi or Divae. Several ceremonies at the funeral went to the consecratio advance. In burning the corpse on the pyre rose include becoming an eagle from the flames to heaven. The emperors and empresses thus become the god had their own temples, priests and parties. They were so entirely assimilated to the gods.</p><p><br /></p><p>The emperors themselves have mocked their deification. In the Historia Augusta is sick of Vespasian told that he says &quot;I feel to be a God.&quot; In his famous poem &quot;Animula vagula blandula&quot; Hadrian doubt his deification.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]545210[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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