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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3103024, member: 80783"]For whatever reason, Hadrians FELICITATI AVG Sestertius issue displays what must be one of the largest number of varieties of all the roman coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alberto Banti (I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali, Vol. II.2 "Hadrianus & Sabina") alone lists and illustrates 53 (!) varieties (Banti Hadrian 337-389) for the Galley Sestertius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of those 53 varieties, only 11 show the galley going to the right. If Andres2 is correct, this must mean that it was mostly the happy return from a voyage that was celebrated on the coinage and less frequently the departure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hill (<i>The Undated Coins of Rome, A.D. 98-148</i>, p. 164) however dates the whole issue to AD 131, on the occasion of the return of Hadrian to Rome at the end of his second great journey (AD 128-31).</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of those varieties were struck with a single pair of dies, like my specimen, which is Banti Hadrian 380, RIC 703k (the only one with laureate head left and galley travelling right).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785679[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3103024, member: 80783"]For whatever reason, Hadrians FELICITATI AVG Sestertius issue displays what must be one of the largest number of varieties of all the roman coinage. Alberto Banti (I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali, Vol. II.2 "Hadrianus & Sabina") alone lists and illustrates 53 (!) varieties (Banti Hadrian 337-389) for the Galley Sestertius. Of those 53 varieties, only 11 show the galley going to the right. If Andres2 is correct, this must mean that it was mostly the happy return from a voyage that was celebrated on the coinage and less frequently the departure. Hill ([I]The Undated Coins of Rome, A.D. 98-148[/I], p. 164) however dates the whole issue to AD 131, on the occasion of the return of Hadrian to Rome at the end of his second great journey (AD 128-31). Many of those varieties were struck with a single pair of dies, like my specimen, which is Banti Hadrian 380, RIC 703k (the only one with laureate head left and galley travelling right). [ATTACH=full]785679[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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