Hadrian on a Modern

For some reason, I'm liking this one better than the average modern .



Well, it's actually a collector's coin that's being issued by the Italian State Mint in March to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian's ascension. Pretty cool, I thought.
This is where I read about it:
https://followinghadrian.com/2017/02/21/10e-gold-coin-to-commemorate-hadrian/

Oh yes, feel free to post your ancient Hadrians .

 

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Theme aside, the artistic style is a thousand times better than the lame commemorative coins the US Mint has been producing for the last 20-30 years.

Here is my only Hadrian, a hemidrachm.

 

it's kinda neat for a modern, they added a off centered sort of look with the edge circles on both sides. this is my only hadrian, a mostly copper as

 

Wow Nice fake☺ (a great one)i did know roman modern so cool isl)

 

ahahaha~ ro, ya killin' me here>< this one's not a pretender, it's got the date on it heheee!

 

So is the Italian State Mint the official mint of Italy, or is it like the Franklin Mint?

 

It still comes back to the question whether things made not to serve as coins are really coins. I assume this will sell for a bit more than ten Euros so it is not as cool as if the Italian state decided to issue coins for daily use showing Hadrian.

 

yeah, that's true, what a racket. but the 1st coin i ever bought that got me into the collecting of coins was a bank of iberia 2002 $5 commemorative apollo coin that i've still got somewhere. while it's not worth 50 cents now prolly, it got me interested and is the one that got me started.

 

hadrian sestertius collection:

 

those are nice ro~!

 

Zumbly, thank you for posting that!

I do not usually like any sort of modern commemoratives, but this one is quite attractive, specially the emperor's portrait. The medal is well balanced and very
well executed.

(My wife, who is not usually at all taken by my ancient coins, usually remarks that 'Hadrian was quite a handsome man'. I may consider this as a small gift for her).

Here are some of my coins of Hadrianus:

 

You fell for that overpriced coin scam too? LOL, I feel better now. Somewhere in one of my boxes is a Year 2000 Bank of Liberia $5 Commemorative, which is probably still worth less today than what I paid for it in March of 2000. I was only 15, so it's OK if I fell for it. It's still a nice coin, but nothing special.

 

No intentions of buying it, but I kinda like it too.

 

Hadrian denarii:

 

I think it's quite attractive. Like was said, it's way better than the bland designs the US mint puts out.
In the spirit or the thread here are a couple of my Hadrians.

 

I like it too.

 

Nice modern zumbly, I wish they minted more looking like that. I remember seeing the reverse image at Hadrian's Villa, fantastic place. CILICIA, Aegeae. Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Tridrachm, 9.6gm, GIC 1218, rare.

 

Legal tender with emperors on them would be cool; but kind of defeats the purpose of a Republic I suppose.
All of my Hadrian Denarii and a Hemidrachm to boot. I'm too lazy to individually photograph this mediocre lot.


I wonder how long it would take @Okidoki to unflip his Hadrians and photograph a group photo.

 

Nice ... it's turned into a Hadrian-fest!!

=> I betcha Oki will be along soon and add-on 100 pages of examples!!