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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7667420, member: 99456&quot;]A very nice lifetime Faustina!&nbsp; and thanks for laugh - it does strike me as unlikely that Sabina looked this much like Hadrian [ATTACH=full]1317674[/ATTACH]</p><p>Admittedly some of this may be due to bad lighting and my weak photography skills.&nbsp; My updated photo does seem a bit less Hadrian-like - this coin also interesting for the gas-mask that concordia is wearing on the reverse - what is commonly described as a &quot;statuette of Spes&quot; could also be an oxygen tank.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1317687[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Imperial, Sabina, Augusta</b>, AD 128-136/7, AR Denarius, Rome mint, struck under Hadrian, circa AD 130-133</p><p><b>Obv:</b> SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG PP, draped bust right, wearing stephane, hair falling in plait down neck</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Concordia seated left on throne, holding patera with her extended right hand and resting her left arm on statuette of Spes on low cippus; cornucopia below throne</p><p><b>Ref:</b> <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.2500-2502#subtypes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.2500-2502#subtypes" rel="nofollow">RIC III 2502</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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