Hadrian Salus Hadrian AD 117-138, AE Sestertius (33mm, 27.73 gram) Rome AD 118 IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG; laur. bust r., l. shoulder draped PONT MAX TR POT COS II – SALVS AVG – SC; Salus seated l. feeding serpent coiled around altar off patera RIC 553; very fine Ex col. Frans Pouwel, collected since the ‘80’s.
A very cool sestertius with tons of eye-appeal!! I added this AS of Hadrian with the Salus reverse a few weeks ago---just to have a nice 'bronze'
We have a sestertius and an as depicted, so I thought I'd add a dupondius: Rome mint, (Group E) Obv: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P Rev: COS III - Salus, seated, feeding snake coiled around altar SC in exergue RIC 972 28mm, 10.6g.